disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

[J. Landman Gay]

That seems a little odd, I haven't noticed that. But one way to block the 
messages is to use flushEvents() in the button script:

flushEvents("mouseDown")
flushEvents("mouseUp")

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On February 21, 2024 3:09:44 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> alright, i'm a little surprised to notice this:
> i have a button. i disabled the button.
> then i clicked on the button
> then i re-enabled the button
> the click, from the period while the button was disabled, is received and
> processed by the button.
> that seems problematic, to me. how would one cause clicks to be discarded,
> permanently? hide the button? overlay it with a transparent control that
> will absorb and ignore the clicks?
>
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