What happened to my message box?

Tue Jul 3 14:11:36 EDT 2012

When I enter this script into the card handler of a card I do in fact get
those values for Return and Enter. Apparently this problem is within the
Message Box stack itself, and then only within the section that deals with
the message field. I've tried using the debugger to trap the execution of
the message field (it has a ReturnInField handler) but the debugger never
engages, even when I set a hard breakpoint (?!), so I haven't been able to
get any further in figuring out what the problem is. Hence, I've built my
own message box in order to get any work done. Weird, huh?

Any other ideas? I appreciate your help.

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> I have to conclude that there is something in your OS, or some utility
> that is preventing the keypress events from getting to the Livecode engine.
> What happens when you put this in a card script and then hit the return key:
>
> on rawKeyDown pKey
>   put pKey
>   pass rawKeyDown
> end rawKeyDown
>
> You should get 65293 for the returnKey and 65421 for the enterKey.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
>
> > Lol, no, no, the message stack is there. I can use the other panes of it,
> > such as the global variables, the pending messages, etc. It's only the
> > single and multi-line messages sections that don't work. They are visible
> > and I can enter commands into the message field. However, it simply
> doesn't
> > respond to Return or Enter to actually execute the messages for some
> weird
> > reason.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:11 AM, stephen barncard <
> > stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Howard...
> >> could your message stack just be lurking offscreen, waiting for a
> >> "set the loc of stack 'message' to 100,100"  ??
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Stephen Barncard <sbarncar at gmail.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> could your message stack just be lurking offscreen, waiting for a
> >>> "set the loc of stack message to 100,100"  ??
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone in the cube zone....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jun 28, 2012, at 17:17, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Craig's trick has never worked for me. Yes, I deleted all the prefs
> and
> >>>> reinstalled LC. That didn't help. Messages are turned on but that was
> a
> >>>> good thing to check.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm limping along with my self-rolled message box so I'm able to move
> >>>> forward at this point. Thanks for the reply.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:02 PM, J. Landman Gay
> >>>> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 6/27/12 1:19 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Yup. Launch LC, call up the msg box, enter "Put the time", hit
> >> return.
> >>>>>> Nothing.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The only other person I know of who had this problem was Craig
> >> (DunbarX)
> >>>>> and I think upgrading eventually fixed it. If I remember right,
> >> clicking
> >>>>> the lower pane of the message box would activate it again, and allow
> >>> typing
> >>>>> into the upper pane. It was odd behavior.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've not followed all this, so I can't remember if you tried deleting
> >>>>> prefs and restarting. If so, maybe a reinstall would fix it. I seem
> to
> >>>>> recall Craig did that and it didn't work, but who knows.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> One thing that catches me sometimes is that the Messages icon is
> >> turned
> >>> on
> >>>>> (messages are blocked). If so, the message box stops working. Check
> >>> that.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
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> >>>>
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> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >> Stephen Barncard
> >> San Francisco Ca. USA
> >>
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