Re: Best way to refresh screen

2013-10-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Most likely your examples are part of larger scripts. Always make sure that you unlock the screen as often as you lock it. 'lock screen' is symetrical additive, and not on/off switches like most other properties. So if you do two locks, and one unlock the screen is still locked. If that is not

Re: Best way to refresh screen

2013-10-01 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
Thanks, Bjorne: That works. So I guess livecode is always trying to update the screen image, unless the screen is locked. But, it gets behind sometimes, so needs a little wait time. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Oct 1, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com

Best way to refresh screen

2013-09-30 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
This seems like it should be easy, but I can't find anything in the documentation. I have a large map image that I want to draw onto. I have defined a viewport, which is a graphic rectangle and all parts of the map that are not within the viewport are hidden. The large map will move around,