Re: Drag-n-drop Time Out & Rev Freeze

[James Cass]

Excellent!  That did it.
Thank you very much, Ken!
-James

On Feb 19, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

So how about this:

on dragEnter
  set the acceptDrop to true
end dragEnter
on dragDrop
  set the droppedFiles of me to the dragData
  send "NotifyUser" to me in 20 milliseconds
end dragDrop
on NotifyUser
  answer "You dropped these items on me:" & cr & cr & (the droppedFiles
of me)
end NotifyUser
That should work...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Thanks for the feedback, Ken.  Maybe this would help explain
my situation.
 Here's a distilled version of my problem:
--begin--
--add this code to the script of a scrolling list field--
on dragEnter
  set the acceptDrop to true
end dragEnter
on dragDrop
  put the dragData into myFiles
  answer "You dropped these items on me:" & cr & cr & myFiles
end dragDrop
--end--

I'm running MacOSX (10.3.2).  If you drag one or more files
to the field
and wait 20 secs, you'll see ghosts of the dragged files zoom back to
their source.  At that point I cannot click on the OK of the answer
dialog.  Sometimes I can press return to answer "OK", but
sometimes Rev is
completely frozen and must be forced to quit.  The feedback
the user's
will see in the "real" answer dialog will be showing them
files that could
not be processed because they have invalid file names.  There
is a very
good chance the user will take longer than 20 secs to read this
information.
Thanks in advance...James





"Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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02/19/04 05:25 PM
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Well, you could accept the file names from the drop and store
them in a variable (don't put them in a field), and *then*
bring up your answer dialogs. If everything's OK, you use the
data in the variable; if not, you ditch it.
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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Subject: Drag-n-drop Time Out & Rev Freeze
Here's what happens:

1.  I drag some files from the OS (Mac OS X) to a
drag-n-drop enabled
field. 2.  I have answer dialogs during the Drag-n-drop handler to
give feedback
to the user.
3.  If the answer dialogs are not answered within 20 seconds, the
Drag-n-Drop times out and freezes Revolution.
Has anyone encountered this problem and come up with a fix?

Thanks in advance....James
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