Can't set hilitedLine inside openStack

[André Bisseret]

Bonjour Paul,

Not sure to have understood well your problem but:

I just made a new main stack "stackMain" and a substack of it named "bar"
On stack "stackMain" a button with the following handler :

on mouseUp
   modal stack "bar"
end mouseUp

On the substack "bar", I put a field "foo" with several lines of text 
setting the lockText to true and listBehavior to true.
the script of the field "foo" is :
on selectionChanged
   global gLineNum,
------
   put the hilitedLine of me into gLineNum
end selectionChanged

The script of the substack "bar" is :
on openStack
   global gLineNum,
   ------
   if gLineNum > 1 then
      set the hilitedLine of fld "foo" to gLineNum
   else
      set the hilitedLine of fld "foo" to 0
   end if
end openStack

And on the substack a button which allow to close it :
on mouseUp
   close stack "bar"
end mouseUp

select a line in field "foo",
close the substack "
reopen it : the hilitedLIne of field "foo" is as expected

 Does that help ?

Best regards from Grenoble

André

Le 19 juin 2013 à 01:01, Paul D. DeRocco a écrit :

> I have a modal stack that contains a listbox used to select something, and I
> keep track of the last selection made in a global variable. I want the stack
> to pop up with the last selection already highlighted, or no line
> highlighted if there is no matching line. So I compute the number of the
> matching line in a variable, or "empty" if there is no match, and then do
> 
>    set the hilitedLine of field "foo" of stack "bar" to n
> 
> It does bupkis; no matter what, the first line remains selected. If I set a
> breakpoint on this line, and open the stack manually (i.e., non-modally so
> that it will actually trigger the break), I can see that n contains the
> correct value. When I step across the above statement, nothing happens. If I
> then type exactly the same statement into the Message Box, the proper line
> is highlighted. What the heck is going on?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com 
> 
> 
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