hide / show oddities ?

[Alan Stenhouse]

Possibly mismatched lock screen / unlock screen ? (Though still seems very weird and sounds like a bug).


On 27/11/2014, at 11:52 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> From: Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: hide / show oddities ?
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> 
> 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
...