I am not able to reproduce this, this morning after a fresh reboot of LC.
If I create new stack, create two groups with multiple objects and move one
group into the other group, I can move it out again in the PB… I can also
relayer objects in the property inspector and "fresh just out of the box" LC
IDE and PB behave as expected. the PB is updated.
<mini-rant>
This goes to the overall problem I have experienced from the beginning with
LC8.*…. as you use the IDE.. over time, mysterious things start happening in
the background.
I have no recipe, but the overall symptom seems to be that in many different
contexts, conditions start to arise where some IDE messages stop being passed,
or IDE globals/locals that should be updated, are not… I was studying some past
posts by Allie, where he discusses the new methods for revIDELibrary "catching"
messages etc.. in the effort to encapsulate IDE functions etc…I think there is
some flaw deep in that framework…
Here are just a few… I should start keeping a list.. and, as I watch this use
list… I see others are report things that might just go away if they rebooted
LC and tried again… (to be tested, your mileage may vary)
-- the Project Browser stops listening to changes in the Project inspector.
-- The project inspector doesn't open from any contextual window.
-- Choose Card Script from the menu does nothing… SE does not open.
-- option-command click on an object will not invoke the SE/script for that
object.
-- Editing script of an object in the PB opens the tab for a script of a
different object in the SE
- preopenstack issued from the message box with a top stack open that has even
a simple
on preopenstack
answer "hello" with "OK"
end preopenstack
does not fire
-- in the message box you type something like
resetGUI (a command in your stack script)
and the msg box updates itself with
put resetGUI
# without firing your command.
-- LC mysteriously opens an IDE stack breaking on some error deep in the IDE
stack frame work "something went wrong on line 1867 of
revWhatever.livecodescript"
-- use of some plugins that used to work are simply out of the question. at
one time they did not interfere.. .now we find code breaking inside scripts of
plugins… an error message and SE will open a tab with a script for a plug in
today, that worked just fine two hours ago and yesterday…
-- the script editor has a mind of it's own now… suddenly you have a failure
because
"end resetGUI" # has become
"nd resetGUI" # and you were no where near that line with your cursor! the SE
just chopped of char 1 of the end of a handler (I experienced this many times
in the past three days)
There are many more such failures that start piling up that
It can get extremely frustrating to the point of ones love of LC turning a bit
sour (I hear this from some others off list too… it's not just me)… you live
with the anxiety that something you are trying to debug actually has nothing to
do with one's own code/stacks/scripts…
I've come to the point where my prompt
"Stand up and Stretch" has become
"Stand up and stretch; Save all stacks, close all stacks manually and reboot
LC" on the hour every hour.
These issues are so opaque/numerous that trying to report them is out of the
question… otherwise you will not get any work done. You just have to "bite the
bullet" reboot and keep going…
</end mini-rant>
I realize this "recipeless" report is not as helpful as a singular issue
report, but my gut it telling me that there is probably something deep in the
IDE framework that may be the underlying cause for *all* these issues.
I wonder if we could turn on some log thing and instead of reporting each
failure.. .we work for a week and then send in the log?
BR
PS on the positive side, I just learned how to use getprop to fire/listen for
virtual property. So you can have an object "broadcast" an "agnostic" event and
different scripts and contexts can handle that in different ways. Awesome! How
many solutions I have struggled with that now are solvable with this! It would
be great to do a big lesson-demo on various uses of this for newbies… it's a
bit opaque/esoteric…
On 9/13/16, 2:36 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Roger Eller"
<[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:
But both the Project Browser and RevApplicationbrowser do not reflect the
change. Once in a while they do… but 80% of the time, change of layers
are
not reflected/updated.
Is there a way force refresh these lists?
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