Actually, backgrounds/groups can make excellent dialogs, forms or
floating palettes, as long as they stay within the window bounds of
the stack. They are faster loading than an equivalent stack and they
can have the advantage of being on the same card, which makes
addressing simpler.
On the mac, the border feature on a group wil make a very attractive
round rect panel for you. They can also be partially transparent. A
transparent button set to the screenrect can provide modality.
Ken,
Granted you can use backgrounds to share objects across multiple
cards, but that isn't necessary, as you know. I probably should have
finished my 'dew before posting this morning. Forget the sharing of
objects for the moment. For the purpose of building various
dialogs/forms/etc., there doesn't appear to be any real advantage of
one over the other to me, which is what brought this up in the first
place after I discovered one of the problems I'm trying to figure out
right now.
--
stephen barncard
s a n f r a n c i s c o
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