Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Here's where I'm at. Craig: I moved the code to openCard, still the same problem.
Mike: wait zero didn't fix it, nor did send in time with full path. Mark: Restructuring the code does, of course, work and is probably going to have to be my workaround. The reason I didn't really want to do that is that the mouseUp event can be sent to one of 7 buttons (it's all to do with the user's startup preference settings) so there's a significant amount of code to be moved around but it's looking like I may have to. In general, it seems that using preOpenCard on the main stack just isn't reliable. I remember in another project I had to move ALL of my preOpenCard processing into a separate handler and call it from preOpenCard with a wait zero before it. Without that structure, the code would just stop executing at what looked like a pretty harmless statement without throwing any type of runtime error. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > Pete- > > Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 6:47:33 PM, Craig wrote: > > > Something like this has come up before. I remember that > > "preOpenCard" is invoked before the card (and the stack?) is even > > loaded into memory. I think. So there may be no valid target handler > > yet available to access. Why the "handled" value is set is odd, for > > sure, but I bet the answer is tangled up with the fact that these > > events are happening just a tad too early, before things have > > settled down. > > Yep. Why are you trying to call a mouseUp handler on preOpenCard > anyway? Take the code in mouseUp, put it in its own handler, and call > it from mouseUp. Then call the same thing from preOpenCard. > > -- in button script > on mouseUp > doTheStuffThatUsedToBeHere > end mouseUp > > on doTheStuffThatUsedToBeHere > stuffThatUsedToBeHere > end doTheStuffThatUsedToBeHere > > -- in card script > on preOpenCard > dispatch "stuffThatUsedToBeHere" to button "yaddayadda" > end preOpenCard > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
