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Hey everyone,
I’m Skyler, pretty new to LiveCode (about a month in, personal license). I’m just messing around making small test projects, and I ran into something odd that I can’t figure out.
Basically, when I type in a text field on one stack, then jump over to another stack and back again, sometimes the text I typed is gone. It either resets to what it had before or just clears out. I’ve double-checked my scripts, there’s nothing that would delete the field contents. I even made a brand-new stack with just two fields and still had it happen.
Is this normal behavior, or maybe a bug? Or am I just missing some setting for fields? It’s a bit frustrating since I want to build forms where users can switch between windows without losing what they entered.
Thanks,
Skyler

"when switching stacks" . . .

Do you mean independent stacks, or stacks that are all substacks of a single main stack?

Oh, and, are you finding this problem on Macintosh, Windows, or Linux?

2 independent stacks, LC 10.0.0.2. MacOS 12:
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Seems OK round these parts.

It makes no difference if the other stack is a substack or not.

And what you describe is unheard of, impossible, if all you did is what you say.

Text entered into a field stays there if you navigate elsewhere. As long as the stack is saved when you close it, it will stay there forever. How many handlers in all do you have in the scripts of each stack? Is it possible to place a red dot breakpoint at the first line of each of them?

Craig

Assuming the OP is a real person, as Craig says this is not possible under normal circumstances.
The usual culprit would be user code that initialises the fields on preOpenStack, resumeStack or openStack.

Skyler does not seem like AI, although AI is becoming a much better writer every day.

Craig