Bug???? Discuss please!

Dave dave at looktowindward.com
Wed Nov 15 10:53:55 EST 2006 

Opps! That's:

If sharedText = true then   -- had test wrong way round!
     put "XXX" into me
else
     set the text of the long id of me to "XXX"
end if

Cheers
Dave

Hi,

I just dug up the test stack and verified that EITHER the Shared Text  
property OR using the long id form of the reference works. e.g.

If sharedText = false then
     put "XXX" into me
else
     set the text of the long id of me to "XXX"
end if

works ok if sharedText = true or false. If course the:

     set the text of the long id of me to "XXX"

works regardless of the setting of sharedText, but is slower.

It's really difficult to know what to do for the best here. Is this a  
side-effected action of sharedText or it be relied on to work  
forever? Or should I go for the long hand safer (hopefully?) code  
that runs slower? If I have to design 50 windows for an application  
it's a question I think I would like to know the answer to before  
doing much coding!

All the Best
Dave
---------------------------------

Hi,

The secret was revealed by finding out that if you set the "shared  
text" property of the field all works ok, e.g. put "x" into me work  
as expected, there seems to be a "ghost" context in which "me" is not  
actually me, or the context gets restored back to it's former state  
IF the shared text property is off. However I'm not sure if the  
shared text property is just causing a side-effect that may well  
change in future releases so I have used the long hand form (which  
takes longer to execute.

Which version of RunRev are you using and which platform(s)??

On 15 Nov 2006, at 14:40, Mark Smith wrote:

> If I add "select the text of me" to the script of the field on cd  
> 2, and I press the button on cd 1, I get this error:
>
> Chunk: can't select object that isn't open
>
> Which is perhaps some sort of clue. However, if there is some text  
> in the field on cd 2, and you change it's script to
> on messageY
>   put me
> end messageY
>
> press the button on cd 1 and it happily puts it's contents into the  
> message box.
>
> So it seems hard to see exactly when we can use "me" and when we  
> can't.
> It seems to work in accessing a closed objects own properties --  
> the long id of me, in your work around -- but not in setting them.
>
> However, if we now change the on messageY handler to
>
> set the height of me to the height of me * 2
>
> and press the button on cd 1, go to cd 2, the field is twice as tall!
>
> So that theory goes out the window!
>
> Perhaps this "me" trouble is confined to the text of fields?
>
> Whether or not this is a bug, it seems to me an ideal subject for  
> some sort of Wiki - I don't know if RunRev have theirs up and  
> running, yet. They didn't, last time I looked.
>
> I also think there may be a good argument for having special  
> sections in the Docs that deal with these "me", "it", "the result"  
> words, which do seem to get confusing, at times.

yes, and add something on the shared text property too.


>
> Best,
>
> Mark

Cheers
Dave
>
>
> On 15 Nov 2006, at 13:55, Dave wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I thought I'd re-visit this as people seem to be in the mood for  
>> bug fixing or changing documentation. How should this be filed?  
>> I'm really not sure what needs to be changed, I have listed the  
>> work arounds I have found at the end. I would suggest that at the  
>> very least this is mentioned in the PDF and the Online Docs.
>>
>> All the Best
>> Dave
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> I have a Stack, StackMain.
>>
>> In StackMain Card 1, I do:
>>
>> -- On a field
>> on MessageX
>> put "MessageX" into me
>> end MessageX
>>
>> -- on a button
>> on mouseUp
>> send "MessageX" to field 1 of card 1 of  stack "StackMain"
>> send "MessageY" to field 1 of card 2 of  stack "StackMain"
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>> In StackMain Card 2 I do:
>>
>> --On a field
>> on MessageY
>> put "MessageY" into me
>> end MessageY
>>
>> --on a button
>> on mouseUp
>> send "MessageY" to field 1 of card 2 of  stack "StackMain"
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>> If I press the button on Card 1, then MessageX gets called in Card  
>> 1 ok and the field gets set to "MessageX". All is fine. MessageY  
>> in Card 2 field 1 gets called ok too, BUT the field is NOT set to  
>> "MessageY" as expected????? However if I select card 2 and then  
>> press the button in Card 2, again the MessageY in Card 2 field 1  
>> gets called AND the field is set ok. All is fine.
>>
>> It seems like the following path does not work:
>>
>> Card 1:Button 1:mouseUp -->Card2:field 1:MessageY does not work.
>>
>> But
>>
>> Card 2:Button 1:mouseUp -->Card2:field1:MessageY works fine.
>>
>> The weird thing is that the handlers do get called and I have  
>> stepped over the statement that does:
>> put "MessageY" into me and that seems to work. However, when you  
>> select card 2, the field has not been changed.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> KNOWN WORK-AROUNDS:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> 1. Instead of using the form:
>>
>> put "MessageY" into me
>>
>> Use:
>>
>> set the text of the long id of me to "MessageY"
>>
>> 2.  Set the Shared Text Property in the property inspector of the  
>> field.
>>
>> Easy to solve, VERY HARD to TRACK DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
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