Face it Richmond. It's you and me against the world. ;-)

Bob


On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 9/20/12 2:31 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> 
>> Would things not be easier to understand if each subsequent lockscreen
>> was signalled in some
>> sort of way so one can keep track of all the nested lockscreens
> 
> I think that would increase complexity and decrease functionality. As Thierry 
> pointed out, scripts would break if you use anyone else's libraries. And 
> there's not much advantage to tracking all that when the engine does it for 
> you anyway.
> 
>> At present (as I'm sure 99% of the readers of this Use-List already
>> know) each lockscreen
>> is initiated like this:
>> 
>> set the lockscreen to true
>> 
>> and, as we have all recently become, almost painfully, aware, you can do
>> that as many times
>> as you like, but then have to do
>> 
>> set the lockscreen to false
>> 
>> just as many times to reverse the process
> 
> Not really. You don't have to track it at all. There are several ways to 
> handle it:
> 
> 1. Just ignore it. When the handlers are done the screen will unlock 
> automatically.
> 
> 2. If you always pair locks and unlocks in each handler, the situation will 
> never arise.
> 
> 3. If you do feel that you simply must make sure the screen is unlocked, the 
> method is three lines of code:
> 
> repeat until the lockscreen is false
>   unlock screen
> end repeat
> 
> But I can't remember ever needing to do that. Have you ever run up against a 
> problem with it?
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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