Just to add that I got this working just now, in the strangest way. My code wanted to show a splash screen for three seconds, so I coded
go to cd “splash” of stack “mySplashScreen” wait 3 seconds sometimes I put a ‘show’ in there too, but the splash screen didn’t show. I found that if I put wait 3 seconds with messages then the card does show up. Seems like snake oil to me. I hope I can create something simple that can be reported as a bug, but I haven’t got there yet. I should say that there shouldn’t be any messages, since this is pretty much the start of the program and no other actions have been launched (at least I don’t think so!). Graham > On 27 Nov 2014, at 11:13, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
