Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread prothero--- via use-livecode
Jacqueline: This appears to do the trick. I had other problems too, like locking the screen before I went to the card that was to display the text. But what you describe works and now I’m cleaning up the stack. Thanks, Bill > On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:59 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode >

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Thanks, Jacqueline! I’ll try to. Bill William A. Prothero, PhD Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science University of California, Santa Barbara > On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:30 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > The newer, recommended method may work better for you: > > lock screen for

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
The newer, recommended method may work better for you: lock screen for visual effect [in rect] - - do stuff unlock screen with visual effect dissolve This caches the area and allows the engine better control over the effect. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Bill, > Am 28.01.2022 um 17:48 schrieb William Prothero via use-livecode > : > > Craig, > Tnx, the reason I did the “do” stuff is because I wanted to programmatically > vary the speed of the dissolve, to do so, you can set the "effectrate" to in millsecs: ... set the effectrate to 300

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Roger, It has always worked fine for me, too. That’s why I’m perplexed. I will also try older versions of Livecode. I remember that there was an issue with “showing” in one of the previous versions. Best, Bill William A. Prothero, PhD Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science University of

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Craig, Tnx, the reason I did the “do” stuff is because I wanted to programmatically vary the speed of the dissolve, initially, but it’s probably not necessary because most of the dissolves are the same. I have a pretty large app and I suspect there is some kind of timing problem because putting

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
Works just fine here! And has always been the way I do it. Roger > On Jan 28, 2022, at 7:17 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > show fld 1 with visual effect dissolve ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

2022-01-28 Thread Craig Newman via use-livecode
Hi. Still annoyed at having to answer in the use-list as opposed to the Forum. I made a new stack with a button an a field. In the button script: on mouseUp hide fld 1 put "fld 1" into lFieldRef put “dissolve" into tEffect put "show "&" with visual effect " into tDo do tDo end mouseUp