Re: topLevel vs. open stack

[Dan Shafer]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

Dan Shafer wrote:

If I'm reading the docs correctly, topLevel should close a stack if
it's open and then re-open it in an editable window UNLESS it is
already open in an editable window, in which case it should merely 
make
it the current stack. But there appears to me to be some subtle
difference between sending "open" to a closed stack and sending
"topLevel" to a closed stack.

Here's my basic demonstration.

Stack is open. It has a field 1 and a button. The button has a script
that looks like this:
on mouseUp
lock screen
lock messages
select field 1 of this stack
copy
topLevel stack "foo"
paste
unlock messages
unlock screen
end mouseUp
Clicking the button brings up stack "foo" in an editable window as
documented but the paste never happens.
Simply change "topLevel" to "open" and the script works as expected.

If I begin with both stacks open, the result is identical.

So two questions arise:

1. How if at all can I copy and paste objects between two open stacks?
  copy field 1 to stack "MyOtherStack"

::sound of palm smiting forehead:: Doh! Thanks, Richard. Good one.
The advantage to the "copy..to" option is that it preserves the user's
clipboard.
2. Why does topLevel behave differently from open and from the way it
seems to be documented?
Could the stack's style property be set?  If so then "open" will honor 
the
style, while "toplevel" overrides the stack's style to open as toplevel
(same with the "palette", "modeless", and "modal" commands).

Stack is a default editable stack. I do no style settings on it at all.

What is the mode of the stack when it's opened?

  open stack "foo"
  answer the mode of stack "foo"
Mode is 1

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 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Media Corporation
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