Disappearing windows

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Fri Jun 23 12:09:29 CDT 2006


Hi all,

> Hi Jaqueline,
>
>> 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?
>
> sorry to hear this :-/

Little correction:

> It's in the script of stack

"Metacard Menu Bar" of stack "mctools":
"on iconifystack" and "on uniconifystack"


But good to hear that my script is not the cause of Jaques misery :-)


Best

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de



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