Side effect of menu to UI-object colour

[K.Daube]

Dear all,

I have now tracked down a strange error/problem in my large script to the following. I can not see why this happens:

• (line 05 active) Running via menu selection the message in the palette is black
• (line 06 active) Running without this menu the message is presented in red as ecpected due to line 42.

Any 'enlighment' is welcome.

Klaus

// ColouredMessage.jsx --- 2019-06-01
// Why is the message in palette AssignProperties red only after some button activity?
// No "#target framemaker" required for this test
Fgr_DebugMenu ();
//Fgr_PalAssignProperties ();
function Fgr_DebugMenu () { //=== Bypassing the FM menu handler to be able to debug ===============
var aMenuItems, listIndex, Fgr_wDebug;
  aMenuItems = [
  "Fgr_PalAssignProperties()"];   // 0
  Fgr_wDebug = new Window("dialog", "Menu broken down to the bare minimum",undefined);
  Fgr_wDebug.location= [200,200];
  Fgr_wDebug.t1 = Fgr_wDebug.add ("statictext", undefined, "Select by DOUBLE click", {multiline:true});
    Fgr_wDebug.l1 = Fgr_wDebug.add ("listbox",undefined,undefined, aMenuItems);
  Fgr_wDebug.l1.preferredSize.width = 250; 
  Fgr_wDebug.l1.preferredSize.height = 50; 
  Fgr_wDebug.l1.onDoubleClick = function () {
    listIndex = Fgr_wDebug.l1.selection.valueOf();
    Command (listIndex);
  };
  Fgr_FillItemList (Fgr_wDebug.l1, aMenuItems);
  Fgr_wDebug.show();
} //--- end Fgr_DebugMenu
function Command (cmd) { //=== Assign functions to menu commands ==================================
  switch (cmd) {
    case 0:  
      Fgr_PalAssignProperties();
      break;
  }
} //--- end Command
function Fgr_PalAssignProperties() {                       // === Cut down to the bare minimum ====
var wPalP = new Window("palette", "FMGraph — Assign Object Properties", undefined);
  wPalP.gMsg = wPalP.add('group',undefined);      // --- message area -----------------------------
  wPalP.gMsg.st1 = wPalP.gMsg.add('statictext',undefined,"Message area:");
  wPalP.gMsg.st1.preferredSize.width ="210";      // position along the buttons
    wPalP.gMsg.message = wPalP.gMsg.add('statictext',undefined," ",{multiline: true});   
    wPalP.gMsg.message.preferredSize = [480,  30];  // space for about 200 chars of message
    wPalP.gMsg.message.graphics.foregroundColor = wPalP.gMsg.message.graphics.newPen (wPalP.gMsg.message.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1, 0, 0], 1);
  wPalP.button = wPalP.add ("button", undefined, "Just an alert message");
    wPalP.button.onClick                     = function () {
    alert ("This all done here");
  }
    wPalP.gMsg.message.text = "This message should be presented in red. In the real script it will be presented only when at the start of this panel no object is selected.";
  wPalP.show();
}
function Fgr_FillItemList (oList, aSource) { //=== Fill dialgoue list =============================
var j, nItems;
  nItems = aSource.length;
  oList.removeAll ();                             // clear the list
  for (j = 0; j < nItems; j++) {                  // rebuild list
    oList.add ("item", aSource); 
  }
} //--- end Fgr_FillItemList

[K.Daube · Accepted solution]

As I have found just this morning: there is no such issue when calling the palette via the ordinary menu function.

I use the 'debug-menu' route to be able to set break points and step through the code - which is not possible in ordinary menu mode.

So my initial question just remains as curiosity.

BTW here is the palette when opened via menu Graphics > Graphic library > Assign Properties: