How to stop screen "flicker"

[David Burgun]

The loop is part of a cold-start up process, I want to run all the  
stacks qualifying stacks in a folder in "ColdStart" mode, this allows  
each stack to reset it's properties etc. to the "Factory" default.  
It's a little more complex than this, but that basically it.

Once the Cold-Start has completed, I then re-open the "Main"  
Application stack (the one that reported it's "Main" status during  
Cold-Start procedure). It then starts running in "Warm-Start" mode,  
and from that point onwards it will start up in warm start mode. The  
ColdStart Stack checks for a file in it's folder when it's run, if  
it's there it cold-starts and removes the file, if it's not it warm  
starts.

All the Best
Dave

On 7 Apr 2006, at 16:49, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> It is not clear to me what you are trying to accomplish. Why do you  
> set the visible of the stack to true or false if you're going to  
> close it anyway?
>
> If the problem is that the stack flashes *before* its visible  
> property is set, it is possibe that removing "as toplevel" from  
> your script solves the problem. Why did you include that?
>
> Completely contrary to HyperCard, Revolution's "lock screen"  
> command prevents windows from being redrawn but does not prevent  
> them from appearing on screen. You might want to set the loc of the  
> stack off-screen before changing the visible property, then hide  
> the stack and set the loc to the original value.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> David Burgun wrote:
>> Hi,
>> When I run the script portion below, I get the stack windows  
>> flashing  for a split second. I thought that the lock screen  
>> command would cure  it, but it doesn't seem to work.
>>   lock screen
>>   repeat for each line myCurrentFileName in myFilesList
>>     if item -1 of myCurrentFileName <> "rev" then next repeat
>>     put myStackFilePath & myCurrentFileName into  
>> myCurrentFilePathName
>>     if myCurrentFilePathName = myStackFilePathName then next repeat
>>     if myCurrentFilePathName <> the filename of   
>> myCallingStackLongName then
>>       if there is a stack myCurrentFilePathName then
>>         if the script of stack myCurrentFilePathName contains   
>> myHandlerString then
>>           set the cpDebugEnableFlag of stack  
>> myCurrentFilePathName  to theDebugEnableFlag
>>           put the visible of stack myCurrentFilePathName  into   
>> myStackVisibleFlag
>>           go invisible to stack myCurrentFilePathName as topLevel
>>           set the visible of stack myCurrentFilePathName  to   
>> myStackVisibleFlag
>>           save stack myCurrentFilePathName
>>           close stack myCurrentFilePathName
>>         end if
>>       end if
>>     end if
>>   end repeat
>>   unlock screen
>> Any ideas??
>> Thanks a lot
>> Dave
>
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