Problem resizing a stack

[Peter Haworth]

OK, I figured out what the problem is although I don't have a clue why it's
a problem.

I noticed that putting breakpoint commands in my preOpenCard script was not
having any effect, depending on where I put them.  I assumed that was
happening because the code never reached the breakpoint for some reason
even though I wasn't getting a run time error.  So I started putting a
breakpoint in beginning at the first line of the script and moving down a
few lines each time until the breakpoint failed to trigger.

That revealed that the line of code that appears to be a problem is

set the liveresizing of stack "xyz" to true

If I comment out that line of code, the stack works correctly as a plugin.
 Put it back in and it fails again.

I'm happy I found the problem and in fact I don't think I need to set
liveresizing every time the stack runs; I'm not setting it to false
anywhere so I assume it would retain its true setting across runs.

But I can't help but wonder why that statement would cause a problem in a
plugin but not in a regular stack, and perhaps even more worrying, why no
runtime error was reported.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:06 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 8/27/12 6:55 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>  My stack resizes correctly if I send a message to the handler that does
>> the
>> resizing from the message box after the stack is displayed but the same
>> handler does nothing when executed in preOpencard, even when the code is
>> to
>> send the message in zero milliseconds.
>>
>
>
> How are you referring to the stack in your scripts, and what mode is the
> plugin opened in? If your scripts use "this stack" and the plugin is not a
> toplevel stack, then "this stack" may not refer to yours.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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