modal window = block handler?

[Tom Glod]

lesson learned ...... happy i found out about this inconcistency now rather
than later.

going forward I am using a "wait until mywindowopen = 0 with messages" to
make sure i get the same identical behavior on every platform.

thanks as always you guys

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Of course, modal windows do not "halt code execution" in that sense. They
> could not because you would not be able to use any code in front or back
> scripts. They prevent the calling handler from proceeding. It's like
> inserting blocking code where the modal is called.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Jul 10, 2017, at 08:16 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > A related issue I ran into recently:
> >
> > I had a complex modal dialog. In my code for the dialog controls I was
> > calling a routine that had a "wait 0 with messages" statement. I
> > discovered that the wait ... with messages allows user events (for
> > example commandKeyDown, etc.)  to kick off other scripts while the modal
> > dialog was still active under OSX. Windows still does a better job of
> > modal actually being modal. This was an older stack under LC6.7.11, so I
> > am not sure if the this is also applies to more recent versions.
>
>
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