Strange group behavior

[Peter Haworth]

When I types the subject, the same thought crossed my mind!

Pete
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Tim Selander <selander at tkf.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> OK, I have to admit that when I saw the Subject: line, I thought the post
> would be, umm, about those of us on the listserve!
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
>
>
>
> On 14/09/02 12:33, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
>> 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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