LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

[Craig Newman]

Hi.

Still annoyed at having to answer in the use-list as opposed to the Forum.

I made a new stack with a button an a field. In the button script:

on mouseUp

hide fld 1

put "fld 1" into lFieldRef

put  “dissolve" into tEffect

put "show "&lFieldRef&" with visual effect "&quote&tEffect&quote into tDo

do tDo

end mouseUp

Works just fine.

Why go through all the “do” stuff? Why not just:

show fld 1 with visual effect dissolve

Craig

> On Jan 27, 2022, at 9:12 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> put "show "&lFieldRef&" with visual effect "&quote&tEffect&quote into tDo
> 
> --wait for 1 second with messages
> 
> wait 500 milliseconds with messages
> 
> do tDo