Tips on maintaining modal behaviour

1999-09-27 Thread Hugh Senior
Having spent more debugging time on this than I would care to confess, the following may be worth remembering if you meet a similar situation. Topic: Calling a modal from a modal This can be useful when sequential user decisions are required. However, in order to keep the modality all all

Mouse-wheel

1999-09-27 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi I just discovered some unexpected consequences of the mouse-wheel support for Windows. Metacard fields will automatically scroll when you turn the mouse-wheel on a Windows mouse that has such a doodad. However, this may not be always what you want. For example, in a multi-column list

Externals Collection 1.0 posted

1999-09-27 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi everyone, Just to let you know we've posted Tuviah's DLL for Windows and XCMD for the MacOS as a package on our web site. Previously freeware named TSX, this updated version is the first commercially available externals package for MetaCard. Please support it by trying out the demo and

Re: SV: BackDrop color

1999-09-27 Thread PEChumbley
How about saving the backdrop color in a custum prop in a stack that can be saved instead? Then on 'preOpenStack' you can have 'set backdrop to (the uColor of stack "soAndSo")'. The problem I'm having is not about remembering or setting the backdropcolor. The problem is that the backdrop