# Thunkable Alerts Bug **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** bug\ **Created:** [April 8, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991 "2020-04-08T14:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/1 "2020-04-08T14:36:17Z")
When I set the title and message of an alert in real time and then show the alert, the title and message do not come up, until the next time I press them. Has anyone experienced this? I am doing a list viewer which when you click on an item it prompts them to confirm to delete an item. However the message only comes up the 2nd time you click on an item. So if you click on a different item, it displays the previous items message. ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/2 "2020-04-08T15:05:07Z")
> [@f510b22377bf48](#): > > the title and message of an alert in real time and then show the alert, the title and message do not come up, until the next time I press them. Has anyone experienced this can you show a screenshot of the code you use to accomplish this task? ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_Elisha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/patrick_elisha/32/68464_2.png) [@Patrick\_Elisha](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Patrick_Elisha)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/3 "2020-04-08T15:05:30Z")
Show your blocks to get help. You may be doing something wrong. ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/6 "2020-04-08T15:15:56Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/6/a6810446ef800e534e40b2ab3a1eb6a9dbcacba2.png) ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/7 "2020-04-08T15:17:14Z")
Thanks for your help… pretty sure its a bug. If I move the code to a button, so they click on the list and then press the button, it works fine. ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/8 "2020-04-08T15:24:40Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/6/a6810446ef800e534e40b2ab3a1eb6a9dbcacba2.png) ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/9 "2020-04-08T16:31:29Z")
can you add an alert for that specific feature? ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/10 "2020-04-08T18:18:20Z")
How do I do that? ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/11 "2020-04-08T19:40:25Z")
Do you mean setup another alert component? That doesn’t make sense in this context. As the list could have 100 items on it, I can’t set up 100 components. It’s a bug in thunkable as far as I can tell. Is there a bug reporting feature in the forum? ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/12 "2020-04-08T19:48:05Z")
This is not ideal but I found a solution, by adding a one second delay! It now works, but there is a delay which isn’t ideal. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/1/b/1b3fa3fe2eeaf8fcc8a48f21eed7f1082e5ae2fe.png) ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/13 "2020-04-08T19:53:32Z")
Does you alert have a default message? What is the shortest possible delay that works? ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/14 "2020-04-08T19:54:10Z")
Yeah its fine. I set the wait to 0.1 seconds and you can hardly notice it and it now works, but this is a bug not in my code, but in thunkable. ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/15 "2020-04-08T19:58:26Z")
I wonder if it takes that .1 second for the app to update the alert method argument I wonder if it was already an empty starter message, would that work, Or does the list picked method to extrapolate the item name take the .1 second. Are both operations a little slow? ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/16 "2020-04-08T20:23:46Z")
I tried it with no default title & message in the alert and with text in. I think as you say whatever way it is updating the alert, it takes a millisecond and it’s not doing it sequentially I guess, as it moves onto the alert code too quickly for it to take effect. Anyway a 0.1second delay works fine. ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/17 "2020-04-08T20:27:21Z")
Could you report this to the Github bug forum? Pretty please ??🙂 ---
**Author:** ![f510b22377bf48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/35a633/32.png) [@f510b22377bf48](https://community.thunkable.com/u/f510b22377bf48)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/18 "2020-04-08T20:42:57Z")
Where do I go for that? ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/19 "2020-04-08T20:43:35Z")
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**Author:** ![wikilinks.infooleua0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/wikilinks.infooleua0/32/68594_2.png) [@wikilinks.infooleua0](https://community.thunkable.com/u/wikilinks.infooleua0)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/20 "2020-04-27T10:30:25Z")
I also have problems with the alert, and I’m pretty sure it’s a bug. If I build the app the alert works fine, but if I test the app with a live test on my Pc the alert disappears and does not work. ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-alerts-bug/562991/21 "2024-11-08T11:31:48Z")