Mac OS and Windows behavior difference

Terry Judd tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Fri Oct 31 17:02:36 EDT 2008


I've seen this sort of thing as well. Add in a 'wait 0 milliseconds' and it
should update correctly.

Terry...


On 1/11/08 7:49 AM, "mfstuart" <mfstuart at cox.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> In the following script - inside a repeat:
> 
>   put "Reading line..." && tCount && "of" && TotalLineCount into fld
> "Status"
> 
> The text and the number values are displayed on WinXP, using Rev: 3.0.
> But on Mac OS X (PowerPC Only), it only displays "Reading line...". The
> number values don't appear at all.
> There is no screen lock at all in the entire script.
> This behavior appears in the standalone.
> The development and standalone were built on WinXP.
> The Mac OS X standalone was copied to a folder on the Mac for testing.
> 
> ## Read each line in the download
> put the number of lines in tData into TotalLineCount
> put 0 to tCount
> 
> repeat for each line theLine in tData
>   add 1 to tCount
>   put "Reading line..." && tCount && "of" && TotalLineCount into fld
> "Status"
> end repeat
> ##
> 
> Anybody know what may cause this?
> 
> Regards,
> Mark Stuart

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Dr Terry Judd
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Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
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