What happened to my message box?

[Bob Sneidar]

This happens with no stacks open or in memory and no plugins active? It sounds like there is something intercepting the enterKey or returnkey message and not passing it, perhaps in a frontscript. 

Bob


On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:

> Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what I put in the message box, since it
> never seems to act on the return key to execute the command.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
> 
>> Try typing breakpoint;<your command here>
>> 
>> You should be warned however that the message box is a strange beast, and
>> may not behave as you expect, particularly with regard to execution
>> contexts (if I remember right).
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 26, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
>> 
>>> Grrr. This bug is back and this time restarting my Mac didn't fix it.
>>> 
>>> So I'm trying to trace what happens when I type anything into the message
>>> box. I've got the script for the message box itself open as well as the
>>> script for the message field.
>>> 
>>> I've put breakpoints at the rawkeydown handler as well as on the
>>> ReturnInField handler but I can't seem to make anything trap to the
>>> debugger.
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't LC scripts respond like any other scripts when in Script Debug
>>> Mode?
>>> 
>>> I can't imagine what could be causing this problem. Everything else is
>>> working normally, including the message box until yesterday.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>> 
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>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Howard Bornstein
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> 
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