Display problems remain in 2.6.1 using OS X

[Mark Talluto]

On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> Just got around to downloading 2.6.1.
>
> Haven't had a chance yet to explore all the good bug fixes yet.  
> But, the first thing I did was to check the screen refresh problem  
> in OS X. That remains a problem. The screen does not refresh after  
> many commands that affect the screen, such as "set the loc of...."  
> and writing to the screen. In the example:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "" into field "display"
>   put "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their  
> country." into tText
>   repeat with i = 1 to the number of chars in tText
>     put char i of tText after field "display"
>     unlock screen
>   end repeat
> end mouseUp
>
> The line "unlock screen" (or wait 0 milisec) is necessary in OS X  
> to get a smooth banner display.


Hi Jim,

I tried this and it looked the same with or without the "unlock  
screen".  Do you have another example that might demonstrate the  
problem?


Mark Talluto
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