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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