Re: Freezing solid

2010-02-25 Thread David Glasgow
On 24 Feb 2010, at 6:00 pm, John Law wrote: How does one prevent the program locking up in the middle of a job? Never, ever, make any mistakes in your scripts :-D David Glasgow PS I can risk this facetiousness, because I know good and wise list members will give you sound and helpful advice

Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread john law
Greetings As a sometime Hypercard enthusiast I'm slowly getting used to RunRev. How does one prevent the program locking up in the middle of a job? I then have to force quit - Mac OS Snow Leopard. Thanks JL John Law Panoramas www.john-law.org.uk m...@john-law.org.uk

Re: Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread stephen barncard
Um.. we're going to need a little more info than that what were you doing at the time? what platform? sample code? do you mean break out of a loop ? modal dialog? Are you sure it was a freeze? command period often doesn't work as Rev is fast compared to HC. ? -

Re: Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 24/02/2010 19:56, john law wrote: Greetings As a sometime Hypercard enthusiast I'm slowly getting used to RunRev. How does one prevent the program locking up in the middle of a job? I then have to force quit - Mac OS Snow Leopard. Thanks Oh Dear, I haven't heard about this problem

Re: Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
john law wrote: Greetings As a sometime Hypercard enthusiast I'm slowly getting used to RunRev. How does one prevent the program locking up in the middle of a job? I then have to force quit - Mac OS Snow Leopard. Sounds like an infinite loop. Post some sample scripts. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
If it turns out to be an infinite loop, sometimes you can hold the escape key down. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Bob On Feb 24, 2010, at 9:56 AM, john law wrote: Greetings As a sometime Hypercard enthusiast I'm slowly getting used to RunRev. How does one prevent the program locking

Re : Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Hi John, Tell us what you are trying to do, tell us what Rev version you are using, and on what system : and we may be able to help. - Francis ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Freezing solid

2010-02-24 Thread Kay C Lan
John, Sometimes you are lucky, and in this situation, where cmd-period does nothing, and you can't get menu control via the mouse, keyboard shortcuts still work, so cmd-s will save your work and as an added bonus, sometimes even brings the stack back to life. If it doesn't, when you Force Quit