Disappearing windows

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Jun 23 11:04:44 CDT 2006


Ray Horsley wrote:
> 
> By george you're right, Jacqueline.  I'm getting the exact same behavior 
> by double-clicking the message box's title bar.  I'm using IDE version 
> 2.6b12, engine 2.6.6, build number 152.  I never noticed that before.  
> I'll goof around a little with it to see if I can trace it.


This should be fixed in RC1.  I can no longer reproduce it in the latest 
build I posted.

If you find a recipe for seeing this in RC1 please let me know.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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> 
> Ray Horsley
> Developer, LinkIt! Software
> 
> On Jun 23, 2006, at 11:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> On Mac OS X, using the RC-1 IDE, I have twice had all visible windows 
>> disappear on me entirely. I accidentally double-clicked on (I think) 
>> the message box's titlebar and everything went away. The MC icon in 
>> the dock does not show any windows in its contextual menu, so I can't 
>> get them back. The message box is hidden so I can't type any commands. 
>> The only way out is to quit MetaCard. MC knows the stacks are there 
>> and asks if I want to save them (thank god) but I have to quit and 
>> restart. When I re-open the stack I was working on, it has been saved 
>> as invisible and I have to issue a "show" command to see it.
>>
>> This sounds like it might be related to Klaus' changes that minimize 
>> all open windows when only one is minimized, except that none of these 
>> stacks appear in the dock, so they aren't really minimized, they are 
>> just invisible. I don't have time right now to track down where the 
>> handler is and check it, but I'm hoping someone else has seen this and 
>> knows where to change it. Klaus?
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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