Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

Jacqueline: > Exactly 37 years. I remember because I started learning HC when > my son was born in order to take my mind off diapers. I like that! Every HC story is poetic, mine too. Mike: > it's amazing that even after...a really long time... > there's still stuff to learn. Plus the latest

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

Oh man yes Jacque and Mike! I do feel old, about the same for me, about late 87… grad school at Berkeley, humpback whales, and carrying Macs in big backpacks. Later MetaCard saved the day! Fun memories, Jeff > On Feb 22, 2024, at 1:51 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Exac

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

Exactly 37 years. I remember because I started learning HC when my son was born in order to take my mind off diapers. If I remember, we can commiserate . -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On February 21, 2024 8:14:19 PM Mike K

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

pfft there is zero chance of that it's been, what 37 years? man, i'm so old. On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 8:35 PM Stephen Barncard via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > "there's still stuff to > learn." > > . and remember . > -- > Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - >

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

"there's still stuff to learn." . and remember . -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 5:24 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > thanks, jacque & mark > it's amazing that even after...a really long time...th

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

thanks, jacque & mark it's amazing that even after...a really long time...there's still stuff to learn. On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > It’s because of the wait - ‘blocking’ waits (those which aren’t ‘with > messages’) que

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

It’s because of the wait - ‘blocking’ waits (those which aren’t ‘with messages’) queue any (low level) events so they are handled at the next wait (in this case the global one the engine does implicitly when there are no handlers executing). Flushing events after the wait as Jacque suggests wil

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

That seems a little odd, I haven't noticed that. But one way to block the messages is to use flushEvents() in the button script: flushEvents("mouseDown") flushEvents("mouseUp") -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On February 2

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

i did. i have both a button, and a power button. script: *local* count *on* mouseUp *if* the disabled of me *then* *put* cr & "disabled" after msg *add* 1 to count *set* the enabled of me to false *put* count *wait* 2 second *set* the enabled of me to true *end* mouseUp On Wed, Feb 21, 20

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

Mike. In a new stack I placed a button with this: on mouseUp beep 2 end mouseUp If I click on the button I hear two clicks. I disabled the button and clicked on it. I enabled the button. No clicks. I did this all by hand. Did you? Craig > On Feb 21, 2024, at 4:07 PM, Mike Kerner via use-liv

disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

alright, i'm a little surprised to notice this: i have a button. i disabled the button. then i clicked on the button then i re-enabled the button the click, from the period while the button was disabled, is received and processed by the button. that seems problematic, to me. how would one cause cli