Ask/Answer sometimes losing defaultStack

[Éric Miclo]

Hello,

Perhaps bug #5925 could be an example?

Best,

ÉrIC

Le 25 sept. 08 à 18:03, Richard Gaskin a écrit :

>
> Since v2.7 I've had some bug reports from my users which lead me to  
> believe that the ask and answer dialogs aren't always returning the  
> defaultStack to what it was before they were called. I've seen this  
> a few times myself, in scripts that first call an ask or answer  
> dialog, then in subsequent lines make references to objects in the  
> stack that called those dialogs and I get an "object not found" error.
>
> In such cases I've found that this workaround fixes things:
>
>  put the defaultStack into tSaveStack
>  ask "Whatever" with "OK"
>  set the defaultStack to tSaveStack
>  -- do more stuff...
>
> But I have a lot of code that calls ask and answer, so it isn't  
> practical to add those lines to all of it.
>
> I'd submit this to the RQQC, but I haven't yet been able to create  
> an isolated example, which leaves me with the possibility that I  
> have something going on in these apps which is causing the problem  
> rather than ask and answer.
>
> And for all I know, if this was an engine issue it may have been  
> fixed in v3.  Rev 2.7 had a lot of changes to window layer handling  
> in an attempt to clean up some modality issues, and those have been  
> refined since but I haven't yet shipped a beta to my users with v3.0  
> (and since the recipe is so elusive it's hard to say how long it  
> would need to be in the wild before this shows itself anyway).
>
> So I'm checking in with you folks here to ask if any of you have  
> seen anything like this, "object not found" errors after calling ask  
> or answer.
>
> If so, have you been able to come up with a simple example to  
> reproduce it?
>
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
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