On Sun, 01 May 2005 , Bob Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All.
I have an app that has a toolbar that does things to a window (an
independent rev file). However, I want to embed this independent window
into one stack and then save it back out.
EG. Imagine a word processor like MS word without an open document.
You have a blank window and a toolbar, call it bobsBlankWindow. Now I
want
to have a rev file to open within bobsBlankWindow and then be saved
back
as the rev file when edited.
Is it possible to embed a stack within the area of another stack.
Apart from that, there is the problem of the window focus. if the edit
stack is clicked upon it would hide the other window behind it. would
using
the systemWindow command work?
Sorry to not try it in advance but I'd need to change a lot before doing
this and I want advice before messing around with it.
cheers
bob
Hi Bob,
We had a related discussion about Stacks in Stacks on the improvement
list a few days ago.
Below is my contribution to this thread that was received unchallenged
(meaning nobody reacted directly to my contribution), so I have to guess
that my proposal may be a viable solution. Here is my post of April 20:
The discussion in this thread has meanwhile moved to having multiple
viewers and several instances of the same stack being opened
simultanously or at the same time, meaning my thoughts may seem somewhat
beside the point when I consider what could be realized *now*.
Apart from Rodneys solution with groups aren't there existing
possibilities that at least come near to a viewer-stack concept?
What about an alternative scenario embedding stacks (one or more) in the
window of a stack glued to the viewer stack? Of course some of the
problems and suggestions discussed in this thread are not answered by
such a workaround.
Here is the scenario - one of more solutions possible:
Open the viewer and at the same time a smaller placeholder stack with
its bottomright set to the bottomright of the viewer. Open the
placeholder as palette to keep both stacks on top and to allow to work
with both stacks without the smaller stack disapperaring behind the
bigger viewer.
Get the windowID of the placeholder and open the stacks you want to show
in the window of the placeholder. When you open another stack in the
window of the placeholder, some properties of the placeholder stack are
transferred to the embedded stack: palette style, empty decorations,
size etc. - meaning they need not be set.
If you want to display information in the embedded stack that can be
scrolled, just place a scrolling group the size of the placeholder stack
on the first card - or any other card the user can navigate to in the
embedded stack.
In the same way you could embed more stacks in different panes of the
viewer at the same time.--
To create an entity of viewer and embedded stacks (neccessary in case
you want to move the viewer) set the decorations of the viewer to empty
and add a decoration bar field with a mousemove script that glues
the embedded stacks to the viewer. This is because - as far as I know -
mousemoves cannot be intercepted by Transcript when you drag a stack via
the decorations. Or is this possible?
The alwaysbuffer of all stacks should be set to true.
Tested here with a couple of sample stacks. Works fine on WindowsXP and
can achieve effects like with frames in a browser, but with the added
functionality of Transcript.
Regards,
Wilhelm Sanke
http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia
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