Button does not receive mouseUP after disabling then enabling button

Peter TB Brett peter.brett at livecode.com
Sun Aug 16 03:27:59 EDT 2015


On 2015-08-15 22:53, Martin Koob wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I found another way to resolve it that works in the sample stack and in 
> my
> application.  Reading about the wait command in the dictionary I saw 
> you can
> also use send in time to give LiveCode a chance to process messages.
> 
> If I use send in time for both "setState off" and "setState on" then I 
> can
> click the button when it is re-enabled.
> 
> Here is the workaround script for the sample button.
> 
> on mouseUp
>    send "setState off" to me in 10 milliseconds
>    send "setState on" to me in 3 seconds
> end mouseUp

You can actually also do:

     send "setState off" to me in 0 seconds

The engine will finish mouseUp, process messages, and then immediately 
run "setState off".

                                 Peter

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Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
LiveCode Engine Development Team




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