hide / show oddities ?

[J. Landman Gay]

I have a large project running under 6.6.x (all versions over the years) which uses hide/show all the time and it's always worked okay. 

I can't think of anything that would cause your symptoms though, it's pretty odd. 

On November 26, 2014 5:46:25 AM CST, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
>
>This feels so unlikely that I wonder if I'm simply doing something
>wrong 
>- but thought I'd ask first.
>
>I had a script which is supposed to (amongst other things) hide one 
>particular group. Although it usually worked OK, in some cases, 
>sometimes, the group would remain visible when it is not supposed to. 
>Trying to find this in the IDE/debugger wasn't getting anywhere, so I 
>reverted to using "put"s (but still in the IDE). I finished up after a 
>few iterations with some code that said
>
>
>......
>hide grp "abcde"
>put "here now" && the vis of grp "abcde" &CR after msg
>....
>
>and it output
>      here now true
>
>So I changed the code to
>......
>set the vis of grp "abcde" to false
>put "here now" && the vis of grp "abcde" &CR after msg
>....
>and what do you know - not only does it output "here now false", but
>the 
>group *always* becomes invisible.
>
>Does "hide" do anything different from simply setting the visibility to
>
>false?
>Is it remotely possible this isn't me misunderstanding something ?
>
>And then - in a completely different bit of the same app, in a
>different 
>group, I have some code (in the group script) that was doing
>...
>show me
>....
>to ensure that the group was visible (inside a timed / delay loop).
>This 
>would occasionally result in some graphics showing up wrongly (in the 
>wrong colour) very briefly. Simply changing the code to
>....
>set the visible of me to true
>....
>again seems to fix this.
>
>To be honest, if someone else described these symptoms to me, I'd be 
>looking for what else was going on that they had forgotten about :-)
>But I've already done that - now I'm hoping someone can offer an idea
>of 
>whether this is feasible.
>Has anyone else seen anything like this ?
>Should I be pursuing an attempt to make this happen in a smaller sample
>
>so I can submit a useful bug report ?
>
>(oh - glad you asked - Mac OSX 10.8.5, LC 6.6.2)
>
>Thanks
>-- Alex.
>
>
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