Screen Refresh Problem

[J. Landman Gay]

John Miller wrote:
> Greetings All,
> 
> I am writing a program that will show the images of any number of 
> folders in a slideshow.  Before the first slide in each folder is shown, 
> I show a field telling the name of the folder.
> 
> The first time I press the arrowKey, the title field comes up and then I 
> can press the arrowkey to show the images in that folder.  However, when 
> I go from the last image of the first folder to the title field of the 
> second folder, the screen seems to freeze up.
> 
> The last command in the script is exit to top.  In test lines, just 
> before I exit, the lockscreen property is false, the various fields that 
> keep track of which folders and which slides are being shown are 
> correct, but the screen is just not updated.
> 
> In development mode, if I press commandKey-M to bring up the message 
> box, the screen refreshes and everything is as it should be.
> 
> The script is actually exiting, and I am not in an infinite loop.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this?

Not exactly, but I recently had a similar problem where the screen 
wouldn't refresh. I never did figure out why. I stuck in a "go this 
card" statement which forced a redraw. You might try that as a 
work-around if you can't figure out anything else.

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