Behavior question

[J. Landman Gay]

I never would have thought of that. What a handy tip.


On 7/22/2015 5:32 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Put a reference to the behavior stack in the stackFiles property of my
> application stack and commented out the startup handler.  It works!
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:39 PM Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
>> Well now it's one of the ones that is assigned at startup - it wasn't when
>> I started this thread.  I'm pretty sure this all has to do with the
>> engine's resolution of behavior references happening before all stacks are
>> loaded.
>>
>> I have all my behaviors in a separate mainstack which is opened in a
>> preOpenCard handler of the stack whose controls reference the behaviors.
>> It appears even preOpenCard doesn't happen soon enough to allow the engine
>> to resolve the behavior references.
>>
>> I wonder if putting a reference to the behaviors stack in the application
>> stack's stackFiles property would fix this.  I will try and post the result.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:22 AM J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this one of the behaviors that's dynamically assigned at startup or
>>> when a stack opens? I wonder if it's assigned too soon, before
>>> everything has finished loading.
>>>
>>> On 7/22/2015 1:03 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>>>> Yep, checked it over and over, plus the spelling of the command.  My
>>>> lcStackbrowser plugin has a feature where you click on an icon for an
>>>> object's behavior and it automatically opens its script - that opens the
>>>> correct script so pretty sure all is OK.
>>>>
>>>> I tried dispatching to a different handler - same result.
>>>>
>>>> I have got this to work however.  I deleted the behavior reference and
>>>> reset it.  After that, all works well again.  But after quitting LC and
>>>> starting it again, the behavior is no longer resolved.
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, the behavior is not being resolved at runtime by LC and
>>>> deleting and resetting it forces it to be resolved.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:57 AM J. Landman Gay <
>>> jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You double-checked the path to the behavior, right? If there are any
>>>>> other handlers in the behavior, do those work?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/22/2015 12:48 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>>>>>> Right, the unhandled is what is throwing me, plus the fact that using
>>>>> send
>>>>>> results in a runtime error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I've found, what I'm doing works in a simplified environment so for
>>>>> some
>>>>>> reason, this particular behavior isn't being resolved, just can't
>>> figure
>>>>>> out why.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:44 PM Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 07/21/2015 04:55 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just tried a very simple test in another stack and it worked so
>>> there
>>>>>>>> must be something in the stack with the problem that is preventing
>>> the
>>>>>>>> behavior from being resolved.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, it *should* work. In most cases anyway.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The only thing I can think of that would mess it up is if you have a
>>>>>>> loadData handler somewhere in a frontscript and it isn't passing the
>>>>>>> message on when it's done.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think of behavior scripts as private backscripts of the parent
>>> object.
>>>>>>> So it should be the next thing in the message path unless a
>>> frontscript
>>>>>>> grabs the message first and never lets go.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't think that explains the "unhandled" status though, so there
>>> may
>>>>>>> be something else going on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>      Mark Wieder
>>>>>>>      ahsoftware at gmail.com
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