Drag-n-drop Time Out & Rev Freeze

[James.Cass at sealedair.com]

Thanks for the feedback, Ken.  Maybe this would help explain my situation. 
 Here's a distilled version of my problem:

--begin--
--add this code to the script of a scrolling list field--

on dragEnter
  set the acceptDrop to true
end dragEnter

on dragDrop
  put the dragData into myFiles
  answer "You dropped these items on me:" & cr & cr & myFiles
end dragDrop

--end--

I'm running MacOSX (10.3.2).  If you drag one or more files to the field 
and wait 20 secs, you'll see ghosts of the dragged files zoom back to 
their source.  At that point I cannot click on the OK of the answer 
dialog.  Sometimes I can press return to answer "OK", but sometimes Rev is 
completely frozen and must be forced to quit.  The feedback the user's 
will see in the "real" answer dialog will be showing them files that could 
not be processed because they have invalid file names.  There is a very 
good chance the user will take longer than 20 secs to read this 
information.

Thanks in advance...James






"Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
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02/19/04 05:25 PM
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Well, you could accept the file names from the drop and store them in a
variable (don't put them in a field), and *then* bring up your answer
dialogs. If everything's OK, you use the data in the variable; if not,
you ditch it.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

> -----Original Message-----
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> James.Cass at sealedair.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:56 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Drag-n-drop Time Out & Rev Freeze
>
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> 1.  I drag some files from the OS (Mac OS X) to a drag-n-drop enabled
> field.
> 2.  I have answer dialogs during the Drag-n-drop handler to
> give feedback
> to the user.
> 3.  If the answer dialogs are not answered within 20 seconds, the
> Drag-n-Drop times out and freezes Revolution.
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem and come up with a fix?
>
> Thanks in advance....James
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