Lock screen and 'Go card' not working

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi again,

I would suspect that selecting an object (i.e. changing the tool)  
sets automatically the lockscreen to false.
You might try to avoid any selection by using directly: clone grp  
"masterColumnGrp"
Let me know ;-)

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.

Le 5 avr. 07 à 16:46, Ian McKnight a écrit :

> Hi Eric
>
> Inspired! I've just tried that and I'm getting strange results:
>
> I'm building a timetable grid. So I clone a master column and populate
> it with the days of the week. To achieve this I call the following
> handler
>
> on cloneGroup tnewGrpName
>  select grp "masterColumnGrp" of cd "timeTable" of this stack
>  clone the selectedObject
>  select it
>  set the visible of it to true
>
>   put the lockscreen &&&cr after msg -----------------------
>
>  set the name of the selectedobject to tnewgrpName
>  select empty
> end cloneGroup
>
> For the first call lockscreen is true
>
> I now start a loop to clone the same master column but the first
> topmost field is populated with the loop counter value. The same
> cloneGroup handler is used here also. Again for each loop lockscreen
> is also true.
>
> The only handler that is called after this in the loop simply changes
> field names and populates fields with data.
>
> However as soon as the loop finishes the lockscreen is false!
>
> Here is the code for the loop concerned
>
> repeat with theNextPeriod = 1 to thePeriodDay
>    put tgrpNameStem& theNextPeriod into tGrpName -- renames the  
> cloned group
>
>    -- leave a space after the day column and
>    -- make a space to indicate break and lunch
>    if theNextPeriod = 1 or theNextPeriod = tbreakAfter+1 or
> theNextPeriod = tLunchAfter +1
>    then
>      put tbreakGap into tGap
>    else
>      put tColGap into tGap
>    end if
>
>    -- 64 pixels is the width of 1 period field
>    put (item 1 of theStartLoc  + 64 + tGap )&comma& (item 2 of
> theStartLoc) into theStartLoc
>
>    cloneGroup tGrpName
>    changeFieldNames theNextPeriod, tgrpName
>
>    -- display the period number in the top most field
>    put theNextPeriod into fld (tColumnName & theNextPeriod) of grp
> tGrpName of cd "timeTable"
>
>    -- move the new column into position
>    set the loc of grp tGrpName of cd "timeTable" to theStartLoc
>  end repeat
>
>  put the lockscreen &&"3"&cr after msg ------------------ this is  
> now false
>
>
> For a 6 period day the lockscreen is
>
> true  -- at the start of this loop
> true :1 -- remains true for each of 6 iterations
> true :2
> true :3
> true :4
> true :5
> true :6
>
> true 3 -- at the end of the loop
>
> I can' t see why moving groups and renaming fields within them should
> cause locksccreen to change state!
>
> Thanks again
>
>
>
> lockscreen is true
>
> On 05/04/07, Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>
>> On the other hand:
>> As you know it: lock and unlock screen go by pairs.
>> So have you tried to lock the screen twice or three times and unlock
>> it until the lock screen = false?
>> Really dirty but worth a try ;-)
>> You can also add in some places: put the lockscreen & cr after msg to
>> understand which statement makes the lock screen reset to false...
>>
>> Best regards from Paris,
>> Eric Chatonet.
>>
>> Le 5 avr. 07 à 14:12, Ian McKnight a écrit :
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards
>
> Ian
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