On 23 Jan 2015, at 04:42, Peter W A Wood <peterwaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I found out that you don’t even need two buttons. Hitting one button twice > quickly will give the same effect. > I see this problem with one of my large LiveCode projects, but particularly on Windows systems. Some users double-click everything and sometimes this invokes the button script twice - which leads to all kinds of problems. I've had to set a flag or disable the button as the first action (and if you do the latter it used to stop the debugger - it wouldn't debug the script of what had effectively become a disabled button…). > Regards > > Peter > >> On 23 Jan 2015, at 11:26, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: >> >> Suppose I have a long handler that includes a few "wait with messages" so >> that users can continue interacting with the stack while it runs. The user >> does something that calls the long handler while it is still running from a >> previous instance. Assume there is no flag in the script to prevent that. >> >> Does the engine queue the second call until the long handler finishes, and >> then send the message from the second call (serial responses)? >> >> Or does the engine run two instances of the long handler simultaneously? If >> so, what happens to the values of the variables? >> >> Or something else? >> >> I've never allowed this to happen before but I find myself in a position >> where simultaneous calls would be the best way to handle things. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Phil Jimmieson p...@liverpool.ac.uk (UK) 0151 795 4236 Computer Science Dept., Liverpool University, Ashton Building, Ashton Street Liverpool L69 3BX http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~phil/ I used to sit on a special medical board... ...but now I use this ointment. _______________________________________________ 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
