Must be an PS 9 thing. Have to dig further for an OS X solution...
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 02:23 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: > At 8:57 PM -0800 1/14/2002, Terry Judd wrote: >> Your right, it definitely won't work! I also tried using this WDEF in >> SuperCard and it brought the whole house down. Revs handling of >> system WDEFs in general has me slightly confused. In SuperCard for >> example you can set the WDEF of a window to any of the system WDEFs >> (you can get a list of these from the system file using ResEdit) and >> supply an additional variable to specify specific window decorations >> >> eg - set the wdef of wd 1 to "124,4" >> >> I'm not sure where the numbers Rev uses come from? > > It sounds like SuperCard has you specify the WDEF resource ID and the > variation code independently. (A WDEF can support up to 16 > variation codes, > each one a variation of the basic window appearance coded by the WDEF.) > > In Rev and MetaCard, you instead multiply the resource ID by 16 > and add the > variation code as a number between zero and 15. For example, to use > variation 6 of a fictional WDEF whose resource ID is 20, you'd > specify (20 > * 16) + 5 = 325: > > set the decorations of stack "Whatever" to 325 > > It sounds like the SuperCard syntax, or even better something > like "set the > decorations of window to WDEF 20 with variation 5", is more > elegant - maybe > something that could be added as an enhancement at some point. But the > functionality is the same, you just have to remember the little formula > above. > > -- > Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.runrev.com/ > Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! > > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
