Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?

2020-04-20 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Look into the log command.  When you disable that, there is no performance impact and you don’t need to remove all of the individual calls. Thanks, Brian On Apr 20, 2020, 5:04 PM -0400, scott--- via use-livecode , wrote: > (requires the LC Business version) > > > On Apr 20, 2020, at 11:25 AM,

Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?

2020-04-20 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
(requires the LC Business version) > On Apr 20, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode > wrote: > > —breakpoints > Sometimes the remote debugger works and sometimes it doesn’t. When it does, > you breakpoint will fire in your app and show up in the LC IDE

Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?

2020-04-20 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Thanks Mark - I am very glad you reminded me of the way puts go into the console window. I knew about that once (two or three years ago, when I last tried to do a mobile app) and just forgot about it. I have kind of emerged, blinking, into the light after being in the dark for a long time. I

Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?

2020-04-20 Thread Mark Talluto via use-livecode
On Apr 19, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: > > Any ideas welcome, including a debugging strategy. I use: --quick a dirty value check answer “VariableName:” && tVariable —did my code get this far answer “Handler name, label that may provide extra context”

Native Switch Button Widget [was: Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?]

2020-04-20 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
My ideas were wrong. What I think now was that the whole of my app was halted by the existence of a Native Switch Button widget on the card I was trying to go to. I am not sure if I have time to prepare a proper bug report, but i found it by a process of elimination of all other objects on the

Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?

2020-04-19 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Graham, > Am 19.04.2020 um 21:16 schrieb Graham Samuel via use-livecode > : > > Hard to extract, but I have a new idea - what if the message queue is being > swamped? I have flimsy evidence that the simulator is generating > locationChanged message (odd, because I don’t think it really has

Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?

2020-04-19 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Hard to extract, but I have a new idea - what if the message queue is being swamped? I have flimsy evidence that the simulator is generating locationChanged message (odd, because I don’t think it really has changed). Can I interrogate the queue? Just feeling my way. Graham Sent from my

Re: What makes everything on a card unresponsive?

2020-04-19 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Graham, > Am 19.04.2020 um 19:34 schrieb Graham Samuel via use-livecode > : > > Sorry to trouble this list yet again, but the main screen (in fact the the > first card) in my mobile app has a “settings” graphic which acts as a button > which to take the user to a ‘menu’ card. That card