On 5/22/04 12:12 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
OK, I believe I've met the challenge, using the relocation technique. The result is a bit like the behavior of the Mac app GraphicConverter.
Try this (message box):
go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/palettetest.rev";
Create a new main stack and click back and forth between the palettetest stack and your empty main stack (or the message box). The palette window should hide and display depending on whether the test stack is front-most, and you should be able to click/type within the palette while it is visible.
See the card script of the test stack for details. Appears to work as desired on OSX (not tested on Windows).
Do I win?
YES!! You win! :)
By moving rather than hiding the palette, there are no recursive resume/suspend messages sent, which avoids the recursive messaging problems. But here is the weird part: the movestack handler you included is absolutely crucial. There does not even have to be a script in it; the main thing is that the movestack message is prevented from traversing the hierarchy. I commented out the entire movestack handler in your example and got the every-other-time palette hiding behavior. Leaving the movestack handler enabled, even if it has no contents and is just a blocking handler, eliminates the problem and the palette disappears consistently every time.
This is really strange, because the movestack block is required even if you don't move the substack and you are just clicking over to the main stack. It looks like a "movestack" message is sent whenever a stack is suspended. That doesn't sound right.
So, the combination of moving the palette out of view rather than hiding it, along with blocking the "movestack" message, seems to do the trick.
I hereby present you with the Wizard of the Weird Handler Workarounds Award. :) Now I guess I'll have to ask the team about that strange movestack message. I don't think it should be in there, and it cost me a couple of days.
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