Sending mouseUp

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 20:15:09 EDT 2013


You might try hard pathing the send. If there is a context issue going on
that should solve it, and during preopencard I would wonder if the context
is incorrect when the send is done.  so dispatch or send it to button
whatever card whatever of stack whatever to test and eliminate the
possibility.


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Got a problem sending a mouseUp event to a button during preOpenCard.
>
> My preOpenCard handler calls another handler that contains the send of the
> mouseUp.  When that handler is called from preOpenCard, the mouseUp handler
> never receives the message - I have an answer statement as the first
> statement in the button mouseUp handler and it never triggers.
>
> The same handler is called from other places after the card is opened and
> the mouseUp message is received OK.
>
> I changed the send to a dispatch and checked the it variable after the
> dispatch and it contains "handled" even during preOpenCard processing.
>  Also tried the "send in" form of send with various times up to 1000
> milliseconds, still no luck
>
> Does anyone know of any issues sending mouseUp messages during preOpenCard?
>  I've run into several problems with code not working as expected during
> preOpenCard but haven't run into this one before.
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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