Re: "lock screen" doesn't?

[Dave Cragg]

At 3:51 PM -0700 9/13/00, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>This seems like a simple question, but my pea-brain isn't cooperating with
>me today, so:
>
>I'm using the following code to open a stack invisibly:
>
>   set the lockscreen to true --locks the screen?
>   if there is a file theStackFile then
>     go stack theStackFile --shouldn't show, but does
>     hide stack "prefs" --then hides here
>   end if
>   go stack "Main"
>
>And it isn't working. When it executes, the second stack, indicated by
>theStackFile above, flashes into existence visibly before hiding.
>
>First, is there a better way to do this? I want to store the second stack
>("theStackFile") separately, because it will be modified, and you can't
>modify a standalone. Second, why isn't the lockScreen property actually
>locking the screen through opening the second stack? Doesn't it do that?

If the second stack (theStackFile) is always to be invisible when 
opened, you could do this in a preOpenStack handler.

on preOpenStack
   hide this stack
end preOpenStack

If you need to control the visibility from the calling stack, I think 
you can use the following (from memory):

open invisible stack theStackFile

Cheers
Dave Cragg
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