Suppress Messages Bug

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Sep 7 21:07:52 EDT 2004


On 9/7/04 7:06 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> I painted myself into an amateur corner with a stack that had an 
> openStack handler that did some things that turned out not to be good. I 
> figured it was no big deal; I could just suppress messages and then load 
> the stack and edit the stupid script.
> 
> Wrong.
> 
> I cannot get the suppress messages button in the toolbar to work in 2.5 
> on OS X or Windows. I click it, load my stack, the openStack handler 
> executes. I tried typing "lock messages" in the message box. Same 
> result. I created a one-button stack that did a "lock messages" and then 
> tried a "set the lockMessages to true." Same result in all cases.
> 
> The only way I saved my life was finally I was able to hit 
> command-period quickly enough on my OS X system to disrupt the script 
> before it could misbehave.

This doesn't address the "suppress messages" problem, but next time try 
this in the message box:

  lock messages;edit script of this stack

Include the semicolon, unless you are in the multi-line message box, in 
which case make it 2 lines. Substitute whatever object script needs editing.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


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