Dialog box not responding

[eagles1]

I have this very annoying problem. Occasionally the simple custom dialog (with only 2 buttons - Ok and Cancel) does not response when user click on the OK button. Sometime I have to shutdown FM to get it to work. Does anyone has this experience ?

[ThatOneGuy]

Hi eagles1:

It's difficult to tell exactly what the problem may be, but perhaps you could answer this question. In your script, do you have an If [ Get ( LastMessageChoice ) ... ] structure after the Show Custom Dialog step?

If you don't have a similar If statement, or you're not sure how to go about it, we're happy to help. Could you post your script or attach the file so we can take a closer look? The problem could be one of several things.

[Ender]

Yeah, it would help to see the specific script.

[eagles1]

I do have the If [ Get ( LastMessageChoice ). If user click OK (in this case, the lastmessagechoice is 2) , it will then perform a script. Otherwise, the it just Halt Script when user click Cancel (which is the default). It is a simple script taken out from the FM Help.

The annoying thing is it works most of the time. Probably once a day or so, when user click OK, nothing happens. User has to click Cancel and try again.

[ThatOneGuy]

Hi eagles1:

True, that is annoying. Occassionally, I have to click twice on a button ... I usually chalk it up to the mouse, like I "half-clicked" the button or something. You mentioned in your initial post that sometimes you have to shut FM down to get it to work. I haven't encountered that.

If the problem continues, include your script in a post, and we'd be happy to take a look at it. It sounds like your structure's okay, eagles1, but there's nothing like looking at the script itself.*

Sidebar ... May as well mention here for other readers about Input Fields in a Custom Dialog. Anytime we include fields in the Dialog for user input, Button 1 (the default or rightmost button) is the only button that will write information from the input fields to a file ... Get ( LastMessageChoice ) = 1. Just a reminder.

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* I have a favorite way for getting a script out of FM without having to run the DDR. Using a Mac, I select the script and click the "Print" button in ScriptMaker's main window. At the print dialog of OSX, I click the PDF button. From there, I have a couple of options ... I can simply attach the PDF file to my post, or I can open the PDF, select the relevant parts, then Copy what I've highlighted and Paste it into my post.