I rely heavily on window.visible. It has always worked as expected for me. At least on Windows machines. What platform are you running on?
I just tested it on 2006 and 2007. Both work ok. Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Tim Jones > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 6:33 PM > To: REALbasic NUG > Subject: Re: window visible > > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Carlo Rubini wrote: > > > Unfortunatelly I deleted the digest containing a post dealing about > > the state of a window, specifically window.visible/not > > window.visible. So I cannot refer to it by Re: <subject>. > > > > As far as I remember, the poster (Jim?) was more or less stating > > that after hiding a window (window2) if, in window1, I said, > > > > if window2.visible then window2.doSomething > > > > then the doSomething would be executed even if window2 was hidden. > > > > That worried me, so I created a new project with two windows: > > > > window2 has got a pushButton whose caption is 'untitled'; > > in window1 there are three buttons: > > > > button1- action event: window2.show > > button2- action event: window2.hide > > button3-action event: if window2.visible then > > window2.pushButton1.caption = "OK" > > > > > > Launching the project I click button1, button2, button3, and again > > button1. > > > > I find that the caption of the pushButton of window2 is still > > 'untitled'; therefore the window2.visible conditional worked ok. > > > > This in RB 5.5.5 - OS 10.4 > > Hi Carlo, > > And therein lies the difference - you're using 5.5.5. The new 200x > versions don't work that way when I test your code (or when I ran my > old code). > > I've now created a variable on the windows in question called IsShown > As Boolean. I then set it appropriately as the windows are shown or > hidden. > > Tim > -- > Tim Jones > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/761 - Release Date: > 4/14/2007 9:36 PM > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/761 - Release Date: 4/14/2007 9:36 PM _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
