Hi Alex, I've occasionally seen this and been content setting the visible property as a workaround. Should have submitted a qcc report but didn't.
Pete lcSQL Software On Nov 26, 2014 3:46 AM, "Alex Tweedly" <a...@tweedly.net> wrote: > > This feels so unlikely that I wonder if I'm simply doing something wrong - > but thought I'd ask first. > > I had a script which is supposed to (amongst other things) hide one > particular group. Although it usually worked OK, in some cases, sometimes, > the group would remain visible when it is not supposed to. Trying to find > this in the IDE/debugger wasn't getting anywhere, so I reverted to using > "put"s (but still in the IDE). I finished up after a few iterations with > some code that said > > > ...... > hide grp "abcde" > put "here now" && the vis of grp "abcde" &CR after msg > .... > > and it output > here now true > > So I changed the code to > ...... > set the vis of grp "abcde" to false > put "here now" && the vis of grp "abcde" &CR after msg > .... > and what do you know - not only does it output "here now false", but the > group *always* becomes invisible. > > Does "hide" do anything different from simply setting the visibility to > false? > Is it remotely possible this isn't me misunderstanding something ? > > And then - in a completely different bit of the same app, in a different > group, I have some code (in the group script) that was doing > ... > show me > .... > to ensure that the group was visible (inside a timed / delay loop). This > would occasionally result in some graphics showing up wrongly (in the wrong > colour) very briefly. Simply changing the code to > .... > set the visible of me to true > .... > again seems to fix this. > > To be honest, if someone else described these symptoms to me, I'd be > looking for what else was going on that they had forgotten about :-) > But I've already done that - now I'm hoping someone can offer an idea of > whether this is feasible. > Has anyone else seen anything like this ? > Should I be pursuing an attempt to make this happen in a smaller sample so > I can submit a useful bug report ? > > (oh - glad you asked - Mac OSX 10.8.5, LC 6.6.2) > > Thanks > -- Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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