Coming a little late to this conversation, I think I have seen this too, in LC 7 rc2. I have several instances of ‘show’ that work, and one, where I have to show a splash screen, that doesn’t. Like you Alex, I automatically thought that it must be something I’m doing wrong, but now I am not so sure. Am about to do more tests. I notice that if I put something that stops the app running (I mean an ‘answer’ message) as the next line after the ‘show’, the shown stack does appear (is visible) behind the dialog box; but without the ‘answer’, the ‘show’ appears to be completely ignored, even if I follow it with a ‘wait’. Gotta find out what this is - it definitely worked in all the 6.x versions of LC.
Graham > On 26 Nov 2014, at 11:46, Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> wrote: > > > This feels so unlikely that I wonder if I'm simply doing something wrong - > but thought I'd ask first. > > I had a script which is supposed to (amongst other things) hide one > particular group. Although it usually worked OK, in some cases, sometimes, > the group would remain visible when it is not supposed to. Trying to find > this in the IDE/debugger wasn't getting anywhere, so I reverted to using > "put"s (but still in the IDE). I finished up after a few iterations with some > code that said > > > ...... > hide grp "abcde" > put "here now" && the vis of grp "abcde" &CR after msg > .... > > and it output > here now true > > So I changed the code to > ...... > set the vis of grp "abcde" to false > put "here now" && the vis of grp "abcde" &CR after msg > .... > and what do you know - not only does it output "here now false", but the > group *always* becomes invisible. > > Does "hide" do anything different from simply setting the visibility to false? > Is it remotely possible this isn't me misunderstanding something ? > > And then - in a completely different bit of the same app, in a different > group, I have some code (in the group script) that was doing > ... > show me > .... > to ensure that the group was visible (inside a timed / delay loop). This > would occasionally result in some graphics showing up wrongly (in the wrong > colour) very briefly. Simply changing the code to > .... > set the visible of me to true > .... > again seems to fix this. > > To be honest, if someone else described these symptoms to me, I'd be looking > for what else was going on that they had forgotten about :-) > But I've already done that - now I'm hoping someone can offer an idea of > whether this is feasible. > Has anyone else seen anything like this ? > Should I be pursuing an attempt to make this happen in a smaller sample so I > can submit a useful bug report ? > > (oh - glad you asked - Mac OSX 10.8.5, LC 6.6.2) > > Thanks > -- Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
