Lock screen and animated gif

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Wed Dec 21 08:22:56 EST 2022


Thank you.

In a future Livecode Global you should do a series on "How the Engine 
Actually Works" :-)


On 12/21/2022 8:00 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> On 2022-12-20 18:27, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
>> If someone switches to another applications (so a suspendStack is
>> executes and does the currently executing script get suspended?) and
>> then back to a different window/stack, could that also change the
>> defaultStack for the currently executing script when it resumes? It's
>> just another real=world user behavior we see with people using our
>> research tool.
>
> No that shouldn't affect things - the way the engine calls handlers 
> responding to an event is such that the defaultStack will always be 
> restored to what it was before the handler is called.
>
> The way pending messages are dispatched is such that it will only 
> restore the defautlStack if it is the same as the stack it was when 
> the handler was entered.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>




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