Seems to me one unexpected outcome would be if you had the command "hide me" early in the script of a stack where another stack was visible, and then made references dependent on the defaultStack being the one hidden.
Bob S On Oct 8, 2016, at 14:12 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/8/16 3:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The rule Dr. Raney gave me is that the defaultStack is the topmost visible stack of the lowest mode. I thought visibility might impact it (I believe that's the case with Graham's stack) so I did some quick tests and even though there was a visible mode-1 topstack, going to the invisible one did change the defaultstack. Thus, my curiosity. I.e.: Stack One visible topstack mode 1 command: go stack stackTwo stackTwo visibility false mode 1 command: put the defaultstack -> stackTwo So...? Personally I'd consider that a bug. Even if visibility was never part of a formal definition, so much of the learnability of xTalk rests on being able to predict outcomes based on what we see. The layering of a window visibly changes if a window above it becomes hidden, all the way down to how the OS renders the drag region. To me it seems logical that an invisible window should be expected to require special handling if another window of the same mode is visible. I can't think of a case where the behavior you've documented would be either anticipatable or desirable. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web _______________________________________________ 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
