Newbie

[Bill Marriott]

I am a little confused... If you look at the Rev message box, there is an 
area to the right of all the buttons across the top. (If you don't see those 
buttons, click the arrow icon in the top-right to show them.)

It will have the name of the target stack the messages will be sent to. If 
you have multiple stacks open, it will automatically change to whichever 
stack is in the foreground. You can simply select the stack you want to work 
with from the drop-down menu (click the name of the stack). If you want to 
lock it into a particular stack, just click the lock icon on the far right. 
Perhaps you locked the messages to a particular stack inadvertently?

It seems this obviates the need for tedious workarounds like fields, etc., 
and makes it unambiguous where a message should be directed.


"dunbarx" <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote
> Spent an hour learning that the message box is married to the stack it was 
> opened with.
>
> If I create a stack and fool around with the msg box, then go to another 
> stack, all my efforts to do simple tasks fail. Why? Because the names of 
> objects were invalid, since msg was still linked to the earlier stack. I 
> only got a clue to this when I used object numbers instead of names, and 
> of course there it does not matter, and my simple commands worked. I 
> closed msg and reopened it with the second stack in front. No problem.
>
> My question is, why on earth? And more important, where does it say this 
> anywhere in the docs. At least msg should say so.