my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Jul 13 13:30:03 EDT 2012


On 7/13/12 10:05 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:24 PM, J. Landman Gay
> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>> It's likely a script error somewhere earlier in the launch sequence
>> (preOpenStack, openStack, etc.) The script aborts and all messaging stops.
>
> As I'm single-stepping watching for errors (there have been none so
> far), I noticed that pre/Open card are happening *before* pre/open
> stack (and this is in the IDE).
>
> Am I missing something big here?  Isn't it supposed to be the other
> way around???
>

I learned recently that all the "pre" messages happen before all the 
regular ones; i.e., preOpenStack, preOpenCard happen before openStack, 
openCard. But they should go in stack -> bg -> card order.

Do you have a startup handler? If so, it would only fire in a standalone.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com






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