Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread andu
Monte Goulding wrote/ schreef: Many programs have support for nested windows. Often they can be docked into the main window. This would be a great feature. You mean like in Word. I agree this would be a fantastic feature. Hate to disagree but I only noticed the disadvantage of this Windows

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread Simon Lord
I have to agree. Nested Windows drive me nuts. This is probably because I'm a Mac and UNIX user, the idea of a Window within a Window simply defies User Interface logic. If you want this then you can simulate it with groups very easily. Monte Goulding wrote/ schreef: Many programs

Re: ANSWER FILE command

2001-01-18 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks Jack, That seems to be contrary to the way that ASK and ANSWER work in general. I thought I had read in the MetaCard Reference that "it" would be passed the name of the button clicked. I'll try out your suggestion. Regards, Greg On 18/1/2001 2:39 PM, [EMAIL

RE: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread Monte Goulding
Really this was just a thought, I didn't mean to panic everyone. If i really thought it was important I'd be a visual basic programmer then wouldn't I. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Lord Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2001 10:56 PM

OS X

2001-01-18 Thread Richard MacLemale
OK, the official release date for OS X is now March 24... How about the MetaCard engine for OS X? Is there any chance that we can get an idea as to when this blessed event may occur? I can't wait to start designing on OS X. I also recommend that we (MetaCard developers) pool our resources to

Re: toggle

2001-01-18 Thread MMessieh
Does anyone have a handler to change the size of a group (height and width) using a mouseDown or mouseDrag(?) type of command. I have several fields grouped together. I want a button or other object that toggles the size of this group to adjust for the diferent sizes of user computer screens.

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Many programs have support for nested windows. Often they can be docked into the main window. This would be a great feature. You mean like in Word. I agree this would be a fantastic feature. Hate to disagree but I only noticed the disadvantage of this Windows "feature". I have yet to hear

Re: OS X

2001-01-18 Thread andu
While it's too early to predict exactly what other new features will make it into the next release, and that list will be much shorter than what we were originally planning (we didn't figure OS X would be an issue until summer sometime, which may still turn out to be the case ;-), we do have

Re: Opening windows behind

2001-01-18 Thread andu
Many programs have support for nested windows. Often they can be docked into the main window. This would be a great feature. You mean like in Word. I agree this would be a fantastic feature. Hate to disagree but I only noticed the disadvantage of this Windows "feature". I have yet to hear