Peter W A Wood wrote:
>> On 29 Jun 2015, at 07:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> If they're taking bug reports on that early build it may be
>> worth reporting.
>
> LiveCode are accepting and actioning bug reports on LiveCode 8.0 DP 2
>
>> Can you reproduce it in the current version?
>
> Yes
>
>> If so, how?
>
> 1. Open a new main stack
> 2. Open the card inspector (card 1)
> 3. Select the background fill
> 4. Choose a colour (colour 1)
> 5. Add a new card to the stack (card 2)
> 6. Set the background fill to a different colour (colour 2)
> 7. Add a new card to the stack (card 3)
> 8. Set the background fill to a different colour (colour 3)
> 9. Go to card 2, the background fill will now be colour 3 instead
> of colour 2
This recipe doesn't work for me.
When I try this here there's an extra step required that's not listed:
5a. When creating a new card the Inspector will change its context from
the old card that's no longer visible to the stack, so I need to
double-click in the current (new) card to change the Inspector's
context to that card so I can change that card's color.
This was described in my original reply to this thread:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2015-June/215845.html>
Where I'd asked about this, Richmond originally answered:
> Are you sure you were setting that property for the card and not
> the stack?
Yup.
But this morning when Alan noted the same thing, Richmond wrote:
> The only comment I’d say is to be aware that the inspector
> changes back to the stack inspector after adding a new card,
> so be careful to open the card inspector each time. No doubt
> you all did this already…
Hmm . . .
I think you've got me there.
This can be verified by running the recipe as shown above and noting
whether the stack - and not the second (new) card - has the color that
was intended for that card.
This can also be verified with the adage:
Know the engine
Trust the engine
Use the engine
Whenever there's any doubt about a possible bug which may be in the
engine or in the IDE, it helps to double-check what the engine's doing
by writing a simple scripts to do the same thing without using the IDE.
Here a test case might be:
on mouseUp
set the backgroundColor of cd 1 to blue
create cd
set the backgroundColor of cd 2 to red
create cd
set the backgroundColor of cd 3 to yellow
end mouseUp
With Richmond's apparent confirmation in reply to Alan, at the moment it
seems we have no recipe which reproduces this.
If you find one please file a report.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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