What happened to my message box?

[Bob Sneidar]

I have to conclude that there is something in your OS, or some utility that is preventing the keypress events from getting to the Livecode engine. What happens when you put this in a card script and then hit the return key:

on rawKeyDown pKey
  put pKey
  pass rawKeyDown
end rawKeyDown

You should get 65293 for the returnKey and 65421 for the enterKey. 

Bob


On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

> Lol, no, no, the message stack is there. I can use the other panes of it,
> such as the global variables, the pending messages, etc. It's only the
> single and multi-line messages sections that don't work. They are visible
> and I can enter commands into the message field. However, it simply doesn't
> respond to Return or Enter to actually execute the messages for some weird
> reason.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:11 AM, stephen barncard <
> stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> 
>> Howard...
>> could your message stack just be lurking offscreen, waiting for a
>> "set the loc of stack 'message' to 100,100"  ??
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Stephen Barncard <sbarncar at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> could your message stack just be lurking offscreen, waiting for a
>>> "set the loc of stack message to 100,100"  ??
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone in the cube zone....
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 28, 2012, at 17:17, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Craig's trick has never worked for me. Yes, I deleted all the prefs and
>>>> reinstalled LC. That didn't help. Messages are turned on but that was a
>>>> good thing to check.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm limping along with my self-rolled message box so I'm able to move
>>>> forward at this point. Thanks for the reply.
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:02 PM, J. Landman Gay
>>>> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/27/12 1:19 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yup. Launch LC, call up the msg box, enter "Put the time", hit
>> return.
>>>>>> Nothing.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The only other person I know of who had this problem was Craig
>> (DunbarX)
>>>>> and I think upgrading eventually fixed it. If I remember right,
>> clicking
>>>>> the lower pane of the message box would activate it again, and allow
>>> typing
>>>>> into the upper pane. It was odd behavior.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've not followed all this, so I can't remember if you tried deleting
>>>>> prefs and restarting. If so, maybe a reinstall would fix it. I seem to
>>>>> recall Craig did that and it didn't work, but who knows.
>>>>> 
>>>>> One thing that catches me sometimes is that the Messages icon is
>> turned
>>> on
>>>>> (messages are blocked). If so, the message box stops working. Check
>>> that.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>> San Francisco Ca. USA
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