Mike, works pretty good once some of the more subtle colors are used. Some are 
pretty garish! (smile)

Once again, thanks for your help.

Joe Wilkins

On Nov 14, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:

> Yeah, don't believe you can set the title bar directly, its set by OS, but
> if you were willing to roll your own then you could, or something simple
> like a home made focus border that changes based on suspendstack and
> resumestack would work. Unfortunately, pretty sure you can't affect the
> stock title bar.  There is a change of color on my system, but its too
> subtle for my eyes to pick up easily. Gray, and slightly lighter gray, are
> all.. erm. Gray. To me.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepe...@cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> OK, Mike. I'll give it a try, but I was only trying to make the title bars
>> different colors.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Joe Wilkins
>> 
>> On Nov 14, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>> 
>>> Nope, they can be on screen just fine.  To do a quick test, create a
>> stack,
>>> create a substack. In the main stack put:
>>> 
>>> on resumeStack
>>>  set the backgroundcolor of this card to "red"
>>>  pass resumestack
>>> end resumeStack
>>> 
>>> on suspendStack
>>>  set the backgroundColor of this card to empty
>>>  pass suspendstack
>>> end suspendStack
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Then click back and forth. Whichever stack you have at front will turn
>> red.
>>> If you choose a different program entirely, both will turn white. The
>>> exception to this, I think do to the way the IDE works is that if you
>> select
>>> an IDE stack (for example the script editor) then start clicking back adn
>>> forth, its possible to get both stacks red untill things sort themselves
>>> out. This shouldn't occur in a standalone.
>>> 
>>> Obviously making the whole stack red might be a little garish, but is a
>>> quick easy example so you can see how it works.
>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepe...@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Mike. After checking your suggestions, I believe they all apply
>> to
>>>> stacks that will no longer be "on" the screen, rather than just being
>>>> inactive. In my case, all three will be on the screen at the same time,
>> so
>>>> that the user can work with one, view the others sometimes and go back
>> and
>>>> forth when exchanging data.
>>>> 
>>>> Joe Wilkins
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 14, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I assume you mean other than the title bar color change, and shading
>>>>> difference (on os x at least).  If thats the case, look at suspendstack
>>>> and
>>>>> resumestack. Also possibly IconifyStack.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepe...@cox.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anyone know if this can be done? I have an app that will have three
>>>> stacks
>>>>>> on the screen at the same time, and I'd like to have a neat way of
>>>> showing
>>>>>> which one is the active stack. I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming, but...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Joe Wilkins_______________________________________________
>>>>>> 
>> 

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