Bug 20117: new rc2 sets a backdrop, and preferences for same

[Ali Lloyd]

Do your keyboard shortcuts work Mark? You could use Ctrl+M to pop open the
message box, and set the backdrop to none, then toggle it on and off via
the View menu, then hopefully it should be gone from your preferences.

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 6:25 AM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Don't know if it helps, but I didn't see this behavior. I frequently turn
> on the backdrop when screen sharing and turn it off later. I wonder if the
> problem only occurs if there is no preference set yet?
>
> Mac OS X El Capitan.
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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>
>
> On July 18, 2017 11:12:23 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > On 07/18/2017 08:55 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 19 Jul 2017, at 1:42 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
> >>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Yep. LiveCode (any version) is now completely unusable for me.
> >>
> >> Completely unusable might be overstating things a touch don’t you think?
> >> There is a menu to remove the backdrop (View > Backdrop). Looking at
> the PR
> >> it was meant to only set the backdrop if users were still in the first
> run
> >> mode of the start center. We will need to investigate why it has
> impacted
> >> others.
> >
> > Nothing but a backdrop. Takes over the screen. Everything else is hidden
> > behind the gray featureless backdrop. I had to alt-tab to a terminal
> > window (what if I didn't have one already running?) in order to kill -9
> > livecode.
> >
> > And that means that there's no way to access the menu to undo the
> > damage. I had to remove my preferences files (which incidentally grew by
> > a couple of orders of magnitude) and recreate them.
> >
> > No. I don't think that's overstating things *a touch*
> >
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> >   ahsoftware at gmail.com
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