Hi Mark, thank you for highlighting the 14275 report. I can confirm the Spotify “interference” on Yosemite and Sierra. It seems to be ininfluent on latest version like Mojave. I want to underline that this wrong behavior is present also in the executables, that is the real problem.
Is there a way to understand what’s going on with 3rd part software? > Il giorno 09/set/2019, alle ore 17:44, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> ha scritto: > > On 2019-09-09 16:16, Giovanni via use-livecode wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> thanks for feedback. >> I think that the ones suggested cannot be considered as a solutions >> nor a workarounds. >> If I am working on an application with thousands (literally) of >> answer/ask dialogs and modal called windows I cannot review all my >> code to find a way to do something that the engine is called to do on >> its own, don’t you think? >> Anyway the “lock messages” can be used with answer/ask dialog but not >> with modal windows that are intended to be used by the user. >> Moreover as the modal stack behavior is correct on Windows and seems >> to be correct on latest MacOS versions I found really strange to >> garbage my code to workaround an issue that, in my opinion, can be >> classified as a bug. > > This sounds like <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14275 > <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14275>> - the > bug appears to be triggered when certain other apps are running but we have > yet to be able to find out *why* these other apps have an effect on LC :( > >> During my investigation I found an interesting thing: starting >> QuickTime to produce a screencast the app starts working properly even >> without closing/restarting it. Closing QuickTime immediately >> reintroduce the problem. This sounds like QuickTime uses a system >> library that LC should use but doesn’t. Can someone give an hint about >> this?! > > That is intriguing - the fact that QT makes LC's modal windows work correctly > again is potentially quite a useful discovery. Do the machines which exhibit > the bug have any 'always running' software (e.g. like Spotify as suggested > in the above bug). > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com <mailto:m...@livecode.com> ~ > http://www.livecode.com/ <http://www.livecode.com/> > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > <http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
