Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-09 Thread Giovanni via use-livecode
Hi everybody, I’m writing here to report a very strange behavior of modal stacks and answer dialogs on MacOS Yosemite and Sierra. Basically the modal windows or dialogs, in these OSes simply does not work and this seems to happen since LC 6.7.x! When you open a modal stack the expected behavior i

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/9/2019 6:50 AM, Giovanni via use-livecode wrote: Hi everybody, I’m writing here to report a very strange behavior of modal stacks and answer dialogs on MacOS Yosemite and Sierra. Basically the modal windows or dialogs, in these OSes simply does not work and this seems to happen since LC 6.

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-09 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Yeah i remember getting really heated when this behaviior was introduced. drove me nuts. I think I just used a "wait while stack is open" kind of command (with messages) and it works fine. On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 7:31 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-09 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
In more recent versions of MacOS the ability to interact with an application that was not the foreground application was added as a feature. For instance I can scroll a web page using the mouse wheel even though the web browser is not the frontmost app. I'm not sure how this could be disabled fo

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-09 Thread Giovanni via use-livecode
Hi everybody, thanks for feedback. I think that the ones suggested cannot be considered as a solutions nor a workarounds. If I am working on an application with thousands (literally) of answer/ask dialogs and modal called windows I cannot review all my code to find a way to do something that th

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2019-09-09 16:16, Giovanni via use-livecode wrote: Hi everybody, thanks for feedback. I think that the ones suggested cannot be considered as a solutions nor a workarounds. If I am working on an application with thousands (literally) of answer/ask dialogs and modal called windows I cannot revi

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-10 Thread Giovanni via use-livecode
Hi Mark, thank you for highlighting the 14275 report. I can confirm the Spotify “interference” on Yosemite and Sierra. It seems to be ininfluent on latest version like Mojave. I want to underline that this wrong behavior is present also in the executables, that is the real problem. Is there a wa