What I do is try to telnet into the database first using shell commands. Bob S
> On Jun 13, 2015, at 15:20 , Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Mark Schonewille < >> m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> You're right, the debugger doesn't like modal windows. It looks like you >>> actually don't have a problem :-) >>> >>> My favorite kind of problem :) >> > > On league review, it appears that I *do* have a problem: what led to this > was coding around one of live codes brutal flaws, that the timeout cannot > be set on OS X (and linux? mobile?) for revOpenDatabase. > > So when it *does* timeout, it probably means that the server has moved, or > something else. The driving point of this exercise was to be able to offer > choices, including opening my preferences stack when database opening > failed. Also to open the preferences stack before attempting to connect if > the option key is down on launch. > > But a regular stack loses it's normal ability to close when opened modally > . . . > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > 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
