Bob Warren wrote:
Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
>
On Mac OS X, using the RC-1 IDE, I have twice had all visible windows
disappear on me entirely. I accidentally double-clicked on (I think) the
message box's titlebar and everything went away. The MC icon in the dock
does not show any windows in its contextual menu, so I can't get them
back. The message box is hidden so I can't type any commands. The only
way out is to quit MetaCard. MC knows the stacks are there and asks if I
want to save them (thank god) but I have to quit and restart. When I
re-open the stack I was working on, it has been saved as invisible and I
have to issue a "show" command to see it.
This sounds like it might be related to Klaus' changes that minimize all
open windows when only one is minimized, except that none of these
stacks appear in the dock, so they aren't really minimized, they are
just invisible. I don't have time right now to track down where the
handler is and check it, but I'm hoping someone else has seen this and
knows where to change it. Klaus?
I would strongly encourage you to install a fresh copy of MC to verify
this issue. While many of us saw this with earlier builds, I believe
all of us have seen this addressed favorably in RC1. This is consistent
with the logic of what was happening:
Klaus' minimize code was in the "MetaCard Menu Bar" stack in previous
builds, and as the mainstack for mctools.mc it was affecting all other
stacks. For RC1 I moved that to the card level, so that it still
handles the minimize for the "MetaCard Menu Bar" stack as expected, but
it no longer in the message path for anything else, such as the Message Box.
Klaus has confirmed that his original iconify code is no longer at the
stack level in RC1, and Jacque has confirmed that her earlier report was
mistakenly using B12, and that once she was using RC1 the anomalous
behavior with the Message Box went away.
If you do find a repeatable recipe for this in RC1 please let me know.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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