I'm properly telling the window, and the windows do exist. They just get
delivered to the wrong place. Somewhere, Director's internal stack gets
confused.
One workaround is to make everything asynchronous, and I'm doing what I
can, but I can't rework everything.
Example:
I send a message to window("thumbnail"), as in tell window("thumbnail") to do x
But it gets delivered to window("tooltip") that doesn't know what to do with it
Of course I use variables for the wins and not actual string specs every
time. It doesn't exhibit the problem in authoring mode (because of how
Director does its windowing) and it doesn't exhibit the problem on
Macintoshes, which have different windowing code in Director, but the
runtime engine on Windows gets severely confused if we push it too hard.
- Tab
At 09:42 AM 3/29/02 -0500, Colin Holgate wrote:
>There are a lot of easy work arounds, I'm sure, but just for now, could
>you debug the problem by checking the windowlist before any tells? You
>could look for duplicate names, or maybe the window being in the wrong
>placement. Or you could tell the window by name, or via its position in
>the windowlist list.
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