Strange group behavior

[Geoff Canyon]

I've experienced something that might be related. For several versions,
culminating in 6.6.x, the activation dialog had multiple invisible
controls, making it very difficult for me to activate LC. I also found that
sometimes whole groups would go invisible in my stacks. I never found a
consistent trigger for it.

I created http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13199 for it, but
everything seems to work properly in 6.7, so my bug was marked resolved.


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I'm busy getting everything ready for the conference and that involves
> setting up software on a pretty old Mac laptop running OSX 10.6.8.
>
> One of the programs I'll be using has a handler that creates a group on a
> card and the copies a control into it, all with straightforward "create
> group" and "copy" commands.  The group and its controls are all created
> successfully... except that none of them are visible.  Their visible
> property is set to true.
>
> I accidentally discovered that if I set the showborder property of the
> group to true, it and its controls became visible and stay visible even if
> I set the showborder property back to false.
>
> This happened in LC 5.5.4 and 6.6.2.
>
> All works fine running the same software on my Mac desktop running 10.7.4,
> no need to show/hide border.
>
> While I have a workaround, I'm wondering if anyone else has come across
> this strange situation.
>
> Needless to say, it makes me somewhat apprehensive about what other
> gremlins might be lurking under the covers of old OSX versions.
>
> Pete
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