Standalone bug

[Klaus]

Hi Tal,

I got exactly the same result as shown on your image when I run your stack!
1. Clicked the button
2. Clicked on the card
3. Got a tiny graphic

EDIT: Maybe "the templategraphic" is set to some higher values for height/width in your IDE when you try this at home!

Why don't you tell your users to "Click and drag" to create a graphic in any wanted size?
To be able to resize the graphics, you would need more work.

I hate to repeat myself, but:
What means "avorted"? Could not find this word (to avort/avorted?) in the whole internet.


Best

Klaus

[tal]

Hi,

I wanted to say aborted instead of avorted, sorry.
So, if you have the same problem, it is a pitty that it works in the .rev and not in the standalone.

Mark, you said you had not a problem with your standlaone?
But me and Klaus cant drag as you do, are you sure you made it in the standalone?

Tal

[Klaus]

Hi Tal,

"aborted" ARRRRGH!

OK, I built a standalone and can reproduce what you are talking about!
I can drag, but when I release the mouse, this tiny graphic appears as if only clicked once on the card!

Very strange, I have no idea what's going on here. Mark, any clues?


Best

Klaus

[bn]

tal,

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on mouseDown
   set the opaque of the templateGraphic to true
   set the style of the templateGraphic to "oval"
   set the blendlevel of the templateGraphic to 66
   put the clickLoc into tClick
   lock screen
   create graphic
   put the number of graphics of this card into tNumber
   set the numberformat to "000"
   add 0 to tNumber
   set the name of last graphic to "myGraphic " & tNumber
   put "myGraphic " & tNumber into tGraphicName
   set the topleft of grc tGraphicName to tClick
   repeat until the mouse is up
      put the mouseLoc into tLoc
      lock screen
      set the width of grc tGraphicName to max (5, item 1 of tLoc - item 1 of tClick)
      set the height of grc tGraphicName to max (5,item 2 of tLoc - item 2 of tClick)
      set the topLeft of grc tGraphicName to tClick
      unlock screen
      unlock screen
   end repeat
end mouseDown

put this in the card script of your test stack. No need to click the "Click to make graphic" button.
I would not do it this way but it works in development and standalone.
regards
Bernd

[Klaus]

Hi Bernd,

cool solution as always
But we would really like to know why this (simple) thing does work in the IDE but not in the standalone!


Best

Klaus

[bn]

Klaus,
I think the problem is that in Tal's card script

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on mouseDown
  repeat until the mouse is down
    set the opaque of the templateGraphic to true
    set the style of the templateGraphic to "rectangle"
    set the blendlevel of the templateGraphic to 66
  end repeat
end mouseDown

the mouseDown never finishes and interferes with the normal operation of the graphic creation and changing of its size. Mind you the mouseDown is triggered when clicking on his button and "repeats until the mouse is down" (???)
Why it works in the IDE, I have no idea.
if you put this into the card script of tal's original stack then it works:

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on mouseUp
      set the opaque of the templateGraphic to true
      set the style of the templateGraphic to "rectangle"
      set the blendlevel of the templateGraphic to 66
end mouseUp

regards
Bernd

[Klaus]

Hi Bernd,

Klaus,
I think the problem is that in Tal's card script

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on mouseDown
  repeat until the mouse is down
    set the opaque of the templateGraphic to true
    set the style of the templateGraphic to "rectangle"
    set the blendlevel of the templateGraphic to 66
  end repeat
end mouseDown

the mouseDown never finishes and interferes with the normal operation of the graphic creation and changing of its size. Mind you the mouseDown is triggered when clicking on his button and "repeats until the mouse is down" (???)
Why it works in the IDE, I have no idea.
...

Ah, very good catch!
Yep, sounds reasonable, thanks!

Best

Klaus

[tal]

Thanks, there is another graphic bug only in the standlaone.
I uploaded it, it is a .rev you did making selected groups, it works fine but if you make a standalone, the graphic selection is invisible.

Tal

[tal]

To respond to your previous message, I stopped to use the mousedown message in my card, I only put "choose graphic tool" in a button and no script in my card, so it worked in the .rev and not in the standalone.

Tal

[Mark]

Tal,

Have you tried my solution? Could you please answer the questions I asked you?

Best,

Mark

[bn]

Tal,
this is not a bug in the standalone. I was trying to be fancy and have set a pattern in the templategraphic. This pattern is not included in the standalone so the graphic is drawn but invisible.
If you edit the card script of "selectGroupsIIII.rev" by commenting out one line it works in the standalone, just without pattern, just black. It is in the on mouseDown handler

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   reset templategraphic
   set the style of the  templategraphic to "rectangle" -- or "oval" or "roundrect"
   set the lineSize of the templategraphic to 3  -- adjust
   -- set the foregroundpattern of the templategraphic to 52 -- 208034 -- block to have straight line w/o pattern
   set the opaque of the templategraphic to false

this is how the relevant codes looks, only the line

-- set the foregroundpattern of the templategraphic to 52 -- 208034 -- block to have straight line w/o pattern

is commented out, the rest is the same as before.
Try this and tell us if it works for you.

by the way: can anyone tell me how to include the patterns in a standalone?

regards
Bernd

[tal]

mark, your solution works, I did what you said but i must have done a mistake, so I still had the problem but now I did it again and it works.
Bn, thank you for the precision for the pattern.

Thank you all;

Tal

[Mark]

Thanks for your reply, Tal. Great that we could solve this together.

Mark

[tal]

Hi,

Just another thing, like bn said, do you know how to use pattern in a standalone?

Tal

[Mark]

Hi Tal,

Just lookup "pattern" in the dictionary and give that a try.

Best,

Mark