Lock Screen disables Lock Messages (???)

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/27/04 2:51 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

> Whew, this one took me two days to track down. I'd appreciate it if 
> someone can confirm this.
> 
> Create a stack with one button. In the button put this script:
> 
> on mouseup
>   lock screen
>   growit
>   unlock screen
> end mouseup
> 
> on growit
>   lock messages
>   -- This causes the resizeStack handler to trigger.
>   put the width of this stack into sw
>   put the height of this stack into sh
>   set the width of this stack to sw+1
>   set the height of this stack to sw+1
>   unlock messages
> end growit
> 
> In the stack script put this script:
> 
> on resizestack
>   put the ticks
> end resizestack
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, clicking the button should never cause the ticks to 
> be sent to the message box. If you comment out Lock Screen, it works as 
> it should. However, with the Lock Screen command executing, the ticks 
> are then output, indicating that the lock message command is ignored.

The "lock messages" command does not stop all messaging. It mostly only 
stops the navigation messages -- such as openCard, openStack, 
preOpenCard, etc.

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