Should "put" to the Message Box be affected by lockMessages?
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu May 24 14:28:20 EDT 2018
Thanks for chiming in, Monte. Done:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21302
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Monte Goulding wrote:
> Ah… yes please report it if you haven’t yet done so. It should just be
> a matter of temporarily setting the MClockmessages to False before
> sending the message in MCB_setmsg then back to the previous state
> after. We do that elsewhere for things like dispatch. The result will
> be better than reverting to the old behavior because clearly it was
> previously possible for the message box to be presented while messages
> were blocked causing some bugs I’m sure.
>
> This would be an easy community contribution for someone that wants to
> dip their toe in ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Monte
>
>> On 24 May 2018, at 9:34 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> I like the new Message Box API, but I've noticed that now that it's
>> message-driven it's no longer immune to the lockMessages.
>>
>> I have a habit of putting in a simple "put" command here and there
>> during development for diagnostics, and with the v9 changes "put"
>> won't bring up the Message Box if the lockMessages is set to true.
>>
>> Anyone else miss the old behavior?
>>
>> Has anyone missed it enough to submit a bug report/feature request to
>> reinstate the traditional behavior?
>>
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