Geometry Manager Problem

[william humphrey]

I hope Chipp posts that link. I will try a little more debugging to see
what message is causing the problem. I hate debugging.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:49 PM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 4/20/12 10:41 AM, william humphrey wrote:
>
>> I never use the geometry manager because I set my stacks so they can't be
>> resized. But I was getting errors in a simple handler like this:
>>
>> two stacks. Stack 1 with button go card 1 of stack 2 then get a function
>> (which is in the background of stack 2). The function only worked when
>> stack 2 is already open to card 1 of stack 2. If stack 2 is on card 2 of
>> stack 2 and the button in stack 1 has to not only open stack 2 but also
>> open card 1 then the function was not called.
>>
>
> The geometry manager doesn't usually interfere with the message path.
> There may be something else going on. I've accidentally enabled geometry
> before but never had any problems with messaging.
>
>
>
>> I did lots of debugging sessions. Looked for an open card handler. Made
>> sure they were all passed. Finally I got the debugger at my breakpoint
>> (set
>> where the function was called) to inconsistently say a bunch of
>> gobblygook,
>> numbers and such, which started with geometry manager (which I don't use).
>>
>
> Did you try stepping into every handler, starting with the first button?
> That may show you where the problem is.
>
>
>
>> So the solution was to wrap the code in the button on stack 1 in "lock
>> messages". So I learned that geometry manager causes problems. There is no
>> way to turn geometry manager off even if you don't use it but that a
>> simple
>> "lock messages" on everything solves it. I am now tempted to madly put
>> "lock messages" everywhere.
>>
>
> You can remove geometry by turning on "LiveCode UI elements in lists" in
> the View menu, and opening the property inspector for the object. Look for
> a custom property set named "cRevGeometry" and delete the whole property
> set. There may be one in every object. Altuit had a neat utility that will
> remove them all easily, maybe Chipp can post a link.
>
>
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