Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> 4. put the vis of stack "POO"
>
> which yielded 'true' [obviously]
>
> although I could not see the stack.
>
> So I concluded, with my philosophical hat jammed well down over
> my eyes, that VIS has nothing to do with whether I can see the
> stack or not, but has something to do with one of the properties
> of an object.
While that hypothesis may be true, your testing may have been a bit lax.
You performed the outside-the-monitor test well enough, but with my
penchant for testing I also performed the following tests:
- Placed another window on top of the one in question
- Turned off the monitor
- Closed my eyes
- Stepped out of the room
In all cases the stack's visible property was unchanged, even when I
could not see it.
Curious...
But seriously, Mikey, if you're still reading this silly post here's the
skinny:
the visible property governs whether a stack will be seen when it's
open, not whether it's open at the moment. To see if a stack is open
check the windows:
if "MyStack" is among the lines of windows() then
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Richard Gaskin
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