Screen not updating with unlock screen

[Alex Tweedly]

The short answer is that the right way to 'fix' this is to use
   wait 0 secs with messages
(or  wait 0 millisecs with messages - same thing :-)

Now you said that doing that produced some strange behaviour - can you 
describe it in more detail, and we'll see if we can figure that out (and 
/ or fix it).

Thanks
-- Alex.
btw - you can't attach anything to mails to this list - best way is to 
include a URL like you did here.

On 10/09/2012 19:49, Gabriel Johnson wrote:
> Hey All-
>
> Sorry if this is a duplicate, my first version of this email from a
> few days ago has not been approved yet (I'm assuming I can't attach
> videos).
>
> I am having an issue getting output to display during a loop. I've
> tried lock/unlock screen but unlock screen does not seem to cause the
> screen to update. The only thing that works is "wait 0 seconds" but
> this causes bizarre behavior in some cases (mouseDown/mouseUp not
> behaving correctly [even when I use wait "with messages"]).
>
> I'm starting to wonder if this is a bug in LiveCode? Here is a video:
> http://www.jrirecordings.com/public/putXShowsOnScreenCapture.mp4 which
> shows some possibly odd behavior. The example in the video is simple:
>
> repeat with x = 1 to 1000
>     put x
> end repeat
>
> When I run this in the message box, what I see on the screen is a
> blank result for a couple of seconds, then 1000 appears. When I do a
> screen capture of that loop running, I still don't see anything on the
> monitor until it is done, but on the screen capture, it shows the
> number incrementing over the course of those couple of seconds until
> it hits 1000. (Note: I've run this with the "put x" wrapped in
> lock/unlock screen and that doesn't show anything on the screen
> either).
>
> Is there some way aside from "wait 0 seconds" to force the screen to
> show output?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gabe
>
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