Ask does not wait for an answer

[Jim Ault]

Just a quick guess... the Ask dialog is actually a Rev stack and you might
be getting a crazy 'closefield' message sent as the dialog is used, which
triggers another event loop.

I get pretty much the same thing, and don't have time tonight to check out
the details, however...

Do the following:
open the message watcher

mod your script to this
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on closeField
  if fld "Ship Date 1" is empty
  then
    ask "Enter a date for this shipment:" with the short date
    if the result is "Cancel" then
      put empty into fld "Ship Date 1"
      select empty
      --exit closeField
    else
      put it into fld "Ship Date 1"
      select empty
    end if
  end if
  pass closeField
end closeField
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Seems to work here.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 2/7/06 5:48 PM, "simplsol at aol.com" <simplsol at aol.com> wrote:

> I hope there is a simple answer to this. I have the following code in a
> field:
> 
>  on closeField
>  if fld "Ship Date 1" is empty
>  then
>  ask "Enter a date for this shipment:" with the short date
>  if the result is "Cancel" then exit closeField
>  put it into fld "Ship Date 1"
>  end if
>  end closeField
> 
>  If I step through it in the debugger, it works as expected.
>   If I trigger it by closing the field, it will show the Ask dialog box,
> and, as it does so, it will put:
> 
>  ask plainEnter a date for this shipment:2/7/6
> 
>   into field "Ship Date 1" - without waiting for either the OK or Cancel
> buttons being clicked in the Ask dialog.
>   I have written this several different way (different if/then
> constructions, etc.) nothing seems to work, and I can't debug it
> because it works perfectly in the debugger.
> 
>  I appreciate you help.
>  Paul Looney