message box not functioning

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Aug 5 18:33:25 EDT 2004


On 8/5/04 4:18 PM, cteno4 wrote:
> ok, im finally starting to move over to the rev programming interface 
> from good olde mc programming interface. I have run into one small 
> problem with a metacard created stack in rev is that i cant get the 
> message box to function if any of my mc created stacks are set as the 
> defaultstack. if i create a new rev stack and lock that as the default 
> stack then i can send messages to my stacks via the message box if i 
> append the stack name to the message (ie show image test of stack 
> mcstack). but as soon as any of the mc created stack are the defaultstack 
> then messages just go off to never never land. 
> 
> what am i doing wrong here? feeling a bit stupid here... thanks.

Do you have the MC message box stack embedded as a substack in your MC 
stacks? That creates a conflict which acts as you describe. The easiest 
way to deal with this situation is to open the stack in MC and delete 
the message box substack from there.

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