Re: Hiding and Showing Pallettes
Hi. There seem to be NO messages sent when clicking on the titlebar. None at all. I even tried placing a button under the titlebar, to see if messages might pass through, but no dice. It seems that the titlebar belongs more to the finder than to the stack window, if that makes sense, since double clicking on it will minimize it to the dock. (on a Mac) Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Mon, Oct 14, 2013 3:00 pm Subject: Hiding and Showing Pallettes Hey Ya'll, I have a window that has child windows that are to be hidden when the parent window is not the current focus, but need to float above the parent window when the parent window is in focus. I have tried leveraging suspend and resume to handle hiding and showing these child palette windows and this works fine when minimizing and restoring windows. However, this fails when you click the title bar of another parent window. the child palette windows just stay in view. There are other things I can click get it to act like this as well. Can anyone recommend a better way to do this? Below are my suspend and resume handlers. the childStacks property referred to below is simply a list of the stacks the parent window has launched. It loops through them to see if they still exist and hides or shows them if they do exist. on suspendStack put suspend put the childStacks of me into sChildStacks put the mouseStack into sClickedStack if sClickedStack contains load or sClickedStack contains scale then exit suspendStack end if repeat for each line ChildStack in sChildStacks if ChildStack is among the lines of the OpenStacks then lock messages set the bottom of stack ChildStack to the bottom of this stack set the right of stack ChildStack to the right of this stack if the visible of stack ChildStack is true then hide stack ChildStack end if unlock messages end if end repeat pass suspendStack end suspendStack on resumeStack put resume put the childStacks of me into sChildStacks repeat for each line ChildStack in sChildStacks if ChildStack is among the lines of the OpenStacks then lock messages set the bottom of stack ChildStack to the bottom of this stack set the right of stack ChildStack to the right of this stack if the visible of stack ChildStack is false then show stack ChildStack end if unlock messages end if end repeat pass resumeStack end resumeStack -- Regards, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Hiding and Showing Pallettes
It's hard to say without seeing your setup, but it sounds like the handlers are responding to all stacks rather than just the one you want. That would imply that the stack script is in use, or that your other parent stacks are actually substacks of the main one. If the parent stack that should respond has only one card, the easiest way to handle that is to put the suspend/resume handlers into the first card. That way they will only trigger for that stack. If it has several cards then the handlers do need to go into the stack script, and you should add a check to be sure the clicked stack is the correct parent before taking any action. On 10/14/13 1:59 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Hey Ya'll, I have a window that has child windows that are to be hidden when the parent window is not the current focus, but need to float above the parent window when the parent window is in focus. I have tried leveraging suspend and resume to handle hiding and showing these child palette windows and this works fine when minimizing and restoring windows. However, this fails when you click the title bar of another parent window. the child palette windows just stay in view. There are other things I can click get it to act like this as well. Can anyone recommend a better way to do this? Below are my suspend and resume handlers. the childStacks property referred to below is simply a list of the stacks the parent window has launched. It loops through them to see if they still exist and hides or shows them if they do exist. on suspendStack put suspend put the childStacks of me into sChildStacks put the mouseStack into sClickedStack if sClickedStack contains load or sClickedStack contains scale then exit suspendStack end if repeat for each line ChildStack in sChildStacks if ChildStack is among the lines of the OpenStacks then lock messages set the bottom of stack ChildStack to the bottom of this stack set the right of stack ChildStack to the right of this stack if the visible of stack ChildStack is true then hide stack ChildStack end if unlock messages end if end repeat pass suspendStack end suspendStack on resumeStack put resume put the childStacks of me into sChildStacks repeat for each line ChildStack in sChildStacks if ChildStack is among the lines of the OpenStacks then lock messages set the bottom of stack ChildStack to the bottom of this stack set the right of stack ChildStack to the right of this stack if the visible of stack ChildStack is false then show stack ChildStack end if unlock messages end if end repeat pass resumeStack end resumeStack -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Hiding and Showing Pallettes
On 10/14/13 6:03 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Hi. There seem to be NO messages sent when clicking on the titlebar. None at all. I even tried placing a button under the titlebar, to see if messages might pass through, but no dice. It seems that the titlebar belongs more to the finder than to the stack window, if that makes sense, since double clicking on it will minimize it to the dock. (on a Mac) I see a resumestack in the message watcher. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Hiding and Showing Pallettes
J, That is exactly where I have the handlers placed. The palette stack is a mainstack that gets cloned off a template stack and the same for the parent stack that generates the palette. The parent stack is a scale ticket, a scale ticket has weights which are input on the palette stacks that are cloned from a template stack. There is a desire when you have many tickets open to have the palettes move, minimize with the ticket stack. When I click on another open ticket, the previous ticket's palette stacks are hidden so they don't show up in the taksbar, etc and are shown again when moving back. I get pretty much the exact functionality I want 80 percent of the time, but there are certain things I can click on to get them to stay stuck up. I use a similar script on moveStack and mouseDown in the card to keep the palette visible and floating above the parent stack. But the one thing I can't get to fire a suspend message is when clicking the title bar on windows 7. I have to click back on the ticket and then to a meatier part of the stack to make the palettes disappear properly. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:16 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: It's hard to say without seeing your setup, but it sounds like the handlers are responding to all stacks rather than just the one you want. That would imply that the stack script is in use, or that your other parent stacks are actually substacks of the main one. If the parent stack that should respond has only one card, the easiest way to handle that is to put the suspend/resume handlers into the first card. That way they will only trigger for that stack. If it has several cards then the handlers do need to go into the stack script, and you should add a check to be sure the clicked stack is the correct parent before taking any action. On 10/14/13 1:59 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Hey Ya'll, I have a window that has child windows that are to be hidden when the parent window is not the current focus, but need to float above the parent window when the parent window is in focus. I have tried leveraging suspend and resume to handle hiding and showing these child palette windows and this works fine when minimizing and restoring windows. However, this fails when you click the title bar of another parent window. the child palette windows just stay in view. There are other things I can click get it to act like this as well. Can anyone recommend a better way to do this? Below are my suspend and resume handlers. the childStacks property referred to below is simply a list of the stacks the parent window has launched. It loops through them to see if they still exist and hides or shows them if they do exist. on suspendStack put suspend put the childStacks of me into sChildStacks put the mouseStack into sClickedStack if sClickedStack contains load or sClickedStack contains scale then exit suspendStack end if repeat for each line ChildStack in sChildStacks if ChildStack is among the lines of the OpenStacks then lock messages set the bottom of stack ChildStack to the bottom of this stack set the right of stack ChildStack to the right of this stack if the visible of stack ChildStack is true then hide stack ChildStack end if unlock messages end if end repeat pass suspendStack end suspendStack on resumeStack put resume put the childStacks of me into sChildStacks repeat for each line ChildStack in sChildStacks if ChildStack is among the lines of the OpenStacks then lock messages set the bottom of stack ChildStack to the bottom of this stack set the right of stack ChildStack to the right of this stack if the visible of stack ChildStack is false then show stack ChildStack end if unlock messages end if end repeat pass resumeStack end resumeStack -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com __**_ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecodehttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Regards, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Hiding and Showing Pallettes
On 10/14/13 7:13 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: I get pretty much the exact functionality I want 80 percent of the time, but there are certain things I can click on to get them to stay stuck up. I use a similar script on moveStack and mouseDown in the card to keep the palette visible and floating above the parent stack. But the one thing I can't get to fire a suspend message is when clicking the title bar on windows 7. I have to click back on the ticket and then to a meatier part of the stack to make the palettes disappear properly. I adjusted the ignored messages in the message watcher and I see now that I do get both suspend and resume messages when I click the titlebar on a Mac. It may be different on Windows, I haven't got that running right now. How about focusIn and focusOut instead? Do you get those messages? I get those as well as resumestack/suspendstack. Open the Message Watcher and adjust the display to show unhandled messages (that was the mistake I made initially, I had it checked. Uncheck it.) See what you get when you click the titlebars. That may give you a clue. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Hiding and Showing Pallettes
On 10/14/13 7:13 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: J, That is exactly where I have the handlers placed. The palette stack is a mainstack that gets cloned off a template stack and the same for the parent stack that generates the palette. One more thing...topstacks seem to get all messages. Palettes don't. I only see resumestack when I click the titlebar of a palette. The main stack doesn't get a suspend message -- probably because the palette is floating and the main stack isn't quite suspended yet. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
