unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

[Björnke von Gierke]

while the screen is locked, in the repeat loop:

wait 0 seconds with messages

Annoying, and weird, I know. But it's been like that since a few versions now, so this "feature" probably will most likely stay like that.


On 27 Aug 2014, at 13:25, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:

> Hi list
> 
> I have the following loop :
> 
>  lock screen
>  repeat 20000 times
>    -- do a lot of things
>    unlock screen
>    put myVar into fld myVar
>    lock screen
>  end repeat
> 
> The purpose is to lock the screen so that the heavy data
> processing inside the loop isn't slowed down, but also to
> display the content of myVar at each iteration of the loop.
> But the content of the fld doesn't refresh while the loop runs,
> only when the loop is over... I used to do that with HC, MC
> and earlier versions of Rev and it used to work...
> I'm on OSX 10.5.5 and LC 6.5.2
> Any idea ?
> 
> Thanks
> jbv
> 
> 
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