message box not functioning
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Aug 5 18:33:25 EDT 2004
On 8/5/04 4:18 PM, cteno4 wrote:
> ok, im finally starting to move over to the rev programming interface
> from good olde mc programming interface. I have run into one small
> problem with a metacard created stack in rev is that i cant get the
> message box to function if any of my mc created stacks are set as the
> defaultstack. if i create a new rev stack and lock that as the default
> stack then i can send messages to my stacks via the message box if i
> append the stack name to the message (ie show image test of stack
> mcstack). but as soon as any of the mc created stack are the defaultstack
> then messages just go off to never never land.
>
> what am i doing wrong here? feeling a bit stupid here... thanks.
Do you have the MC message box stack embedded as a substack in your MC
stacks? That creates a conflict which acts as you describe. The easiest
way to deal with this situation is to open the stack in MC and delete
the message box substack from there.
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