Desperately seeking help. iconify. uniconify. close from task bar. answer. ms reportable error?

[Martin Baxter]

Pat,

This looks a bit like the answer dialog itself is causing the problem. I
have seen it behave like this and in fact have long since given up using it
as a result. (I've had similar problems with ask, but not so often.)

I would try making a simple custom dialog to substitute for answer, and see
if the problem goes away.

HTH

Martin Baxter

>Trevor,
>
>The error is
>
>winxp the Microsoft .."has encountered an problem and need to close. We are
>sorry for the incovenience...etc. Please tell microsoft about this problem
>etc"
>
>win98 & 95 "This program has peformed an illegal operation and will be shut
>down"
>
>
>The shutdownrequest, closestackrequest etc. all get received OK and the
>handler runs until it reaches the answer box.
>In any case this problem occurs even if you make an empty stack, with a
>handler that just has the answer box, to deal with the close from the
>taskbar.
>
>I have tried setting the iconic to true, but of course the answer box  is
>still in the same handler.
>
>I could probably just set the iconic to true which would force the user to
>close the stack from the menu or the close box. They might think it is a bit
>strange when they close from the taskbar and then the stack opens up. But
>there doesn't seem to be any other way out.
>
>This is obviously some kind of weird bug that nobody has noticed before. As
>far as I can tell it doesn't happen in 2.5 (I don't know about 2.2)
>
>Pat
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Trevor DeVore" <lists at mangomultimedia.com>
>To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 6:00 PM
>Subject: Re: Desperately seeking help. iconify. uniconify. close from task
>bar. answer. ms reportable error?
>
>
>> On Jul 31, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Pat Trendler wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks Trevor,
>> >
>> > Yes you understand right.  It is when the user right clicks on the
>> > task bar
>> > and chooses close. Otherwise, shutdownrequest etc. work OK if the user
>> > maximises first. It's only if the user does it from the taskbar.
>> >
>> > The same thing happens if I try to trap at the shutdownrequest if the
>> > stack
>> > is minimized. As soon as it hit the answer box I get the error.
>>
>> What is the error exactly?  That the shutdownrequest message is not
>> received?  If that is the case might want to check the
>> closeStackRequest message as well.
>>
>> If the shutdownRequest message is being received then you could try
>> setting the iconic property of the stack to "true" before asking the
>> user to save.  That should maximize the stack again.
>>
>> --
>> Trevor DeVore
>> Blue Mango Multimedia
>> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
>>
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