Did you try locking & unlocking the screen to force a screen refresh? That's one workaround idea.
Phil Davis ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Revolution Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Palette redraw problem > Before I bugzilla this, I wanted to check to see if anyone else has hit > this snag and whether there is a work-around for it. > > I have stack that opens a tool palete. I want the palette to disappear > when the stack is not frontmost, and reappear when it is. I scripted a > suspendStack handler and a resumeStack handler to manage this: > > on suspendStack > hide palette "myPalette" > end suspendStack > > on resumeStack > show palette "myPalette" > end resumeStack > > This works exactly every other time the stack is suspended; that is, the > first time it hides, the second time it doesn't. In addition, the times > when the palette is reshown, it is not redrawn and appears on screen as > a plain white rectangle with no contents. "Go this card of stack > myPalette" from the message box will force a redraw and the contents appear. > > Sometimes the engine seems to forget what the stack status is. When the > palette appears to be empty and all white, the message box says it is > hidden. However, "show palette mypalette" in this case does not work and > there is no change to the stack's appearance. Neither does "hide palette > mypalette". The engine seems to completely forget the palette stack > exists. There are no reported errors. > > I have tried closing the palette rather than hiding it; no difference. I > have put blocking scripts for all system messages in the palette stack; > no difference. I have locked messages before hiding or showing the > stack; no difference. I have added a check in each handler to make sure > the target of the suspend and resume messages is the primary stack; no > difference. > > Ideas? Workarounds till this gets fixed? Has anyone seen this before? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution