Your question goes to the heart of Application design and modeling in
Revolution, which is a pretty broad topic.
However, there are a couple of short answers that might either
satisfy your current need or lead you to somewhere else that does.
It is entirely possible to include in one Rev stack/application cards/
windows that have different sizes and shapes from others. Doing so
requires scripting those cards so that they resize when they open and
close but it can be done. I personally never use this approach, but
I've seen some apps that worked quite smoothly that use it a lot.
In all likelihood, you're experiencing stacks/apps that are done in
the "new" Revolutionary way, that is, with a single mainstack which
opens sub-stacks for things like you're describing. Given the fact
that you can have a conceptually unlimited number of sub-stacks, all
or many of which may have just one card, this design approach has all
the virtues of modularity. You can open such sub-stacks so they look
and behave like dialog boxes or windows or even sheets on OS X.
Your second question about making all the controls behave as a single
entity is indeed answered by "groups." These are quite powerful and
worth spending time getting to understand. You can have multiple
groups, shared across all or multiple sub-sets of cards in your
stacks, so the possibilities are literally endless.
Enjoy Rev programming and know that there's a great community of
people here who are eager to help newcomers sort it all out.
On Jun 27, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Rob Beynon wrote:
All,
I've seen stacks where popup windows, complete with a full set of
title bar tools and a menubar, can be made to appear, for example, to
record preferences.
Are these cards? Can new cards be made to be a different size to
the first
card in a stack? And, how does one make all the controls (radi
buttons, fields etc) behave as a single entity (through a group?).
This is a whole new level of RR programming for me, so some advice
would be very helpful.
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Dan Shafer, Revolution Consultant and Author
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