stack freeze when cloning substack on Mac

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have you tried getting the result or the try handlers?

this may give you the answer... 
verify that the stack you call does exist (mac is not windoze), etc...

also, try to make it work in 2.5ax... just to check...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Mooney [mailto:tech at paynesparkman.com]
> Sent: 05 December 2002 16:06
> To: MetaCard Mail List
> Subject: stack freeze when cloning substack on Mac
> 
> 
> This has always worked fine in windows but appears to be a 
> problem in OS
> 9.0.4 with the 2.4.3 engine.  I have a simple little substack 
> with one field
> which I clone then give different names and contents to the 
> clone depending
> on what opens it.  The cloning occurs within a function to 
> which I pass the
> name of the cloned stack, its rect, and the text which will 
> go in the field.
> It appears that when I invoke this command with a popup or 
> pulldown style
> btn, the stack freezes.  I can see the cursor blinking in the 
> user editable
> fld of the cloned stack but, I can't select anything in the 
> fld and I can't
> close or resize the substack .  I can move the mouse cursor 
> over the still
> popped-up contents of the btn and see the different lines 
> hilite as I pass
> over them but, clicking doesn't make it unpop.  Clicking on 
> the main stack
> doesn't bring it to the foreground.  The Mac menu bar doesn't 
> respond.  The
> only way to get out of this is to click on the desktop, 
> another application
> open on the desktop, or a finder window.  Is this a bug or do I have a
> scripting problem?
> 
> Rich Mooney
> Payne Sparkman Mfg.
> shop at paynesparkman.com
> 
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