Hi Larry et al,
Is it feasible to have one stack that's always visible, but
positioned off-screen? That way you could always do the hot-key
thing and/or the menu thing.
Phil
Scott Raney wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> > On 6/22/00 8:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I tried your suggestion but it appears that if you click on the backdrop no
> > > key presses are processed even by the backscript. As long as you have
> > > clicked on some stack/window then the key press is handled by the
> > > backscript.
> >
> > An option has been proposed here in which messages captured by the backdrop
> > would be processed.
> >
> > Mr. Raney -- what was the last word on that?
>
> It's on the feature-request list, but there's been no breakthrough on
> deciding how and where the messages would be delivered (i.e., what
> would be "the target" in this case?) and so development of this
> feature hasn't been scheduled yet.
>
> As stated in my last message to you:
>
> Things would have been a lot easier if the backdrop had been
> originally designed as an object, in which case you'd have been able
> to do things like:
> set the script of the backdrop to whatever
> set the backColor of the backdrop to "red"
> set the visible of the backdrop to true
> etc...
>
> Unfortunately the SC developers didn't think this far ahead, and this
> new architecture is fundamentally incompatible with the current syntax.
> Regards,
> Scott
>
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