lock screen gotcha revisited

[J. Landman Gay]

That doesn't sound right, though I've seen issues with nested locks too. 
What happens if you call this handler:

on unlockReally
   repeat until the lockscreen is false
     unlock screen
   end repeat
end unlockReally


On 8/18/17 3:54 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> okay after some testing it seems only the script that locked the screen, maybe only the actual handler can clear it's own lock. If this is not right I'd like to know it. Seems there ought to be an unlock all command or some such thing.
> 
> Bob S
> 
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>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 13:37 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I have some screen updates I do that take time because I query a database first, and it may not be local. To keep the screen from progressively updating, I lock the screen.
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