Going crazy with closing a stack

Doug Lerner doug at webcrossing.com
Sun Feb 1 18:26:47 EST 2004


On 2/2/04 6:50 AM, "Wilhelm Sanke" <sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de> wrote:

> 
> On Mon Feb 2  Doug Lerner doug at webcrossing.com wrote:
> 
>> 
>> When I close a stack in which the video grabber is embedded, I am
>> trying to
>> clean up as follows:
>> 
>> (snip)
>> 
>> BUT... even if I close the stack manually, the answer dialog doesn't even
>> appear.
>> 
>> The closeStack handler is just not being called. And it is a handler local
>> to the stack itself!
>> 
>> What might block the closeStack message from being sent to this stack
>> handler?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> doug
> 
> 
> 
> Probably this is  related to the problem Revolution has in handling
> greater amounts of data.
> 
> I have various stacks here that contain a larger number of controls on
> one card.
> 
> A stack with a card containing 1500 controls takes about 10 minutes to
> close - on my G4 Powerbook with 667 MHz.
> 
> Metacard closes the same stack immediately.

This stack only has two controls on it - an image and a button.

doug



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