Window Shape/Style

[Terry Judd]

>Has anyone tried "set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 16" to 
>get rounded corners on their stack?  Does it really work?  I'm at my 
>wits end, I manually entered close to a thousand numbers and none 
>came close to rounded corners.  In fact most simply made my stack 
>disappear.
>
>MAC OS X only.
>

Did you try snaffling the WDEF out of iTunes with ResEdit and using that?

>
>
>On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
>
>>At 6:14 PM -0800 1/11/2002, Simon Lord wrote:
>>>Not getting much of a responce so I'll rephrase the question.
>>>Who here can tell me how I can create a stack that uses a custom
>>>shape?
>>>
>>>I need some sort of external to change the shape right?  I'd
>>>like to be a client of the person that can sell me the solution.
>>
>>All you need actually is a WDEF resource, not an external. A WDEF resource
>>is installed in the system file or in your app or stack - somewhere in the
>>resource path. You may need someone to write for you a custom WDEF, but
>>there are several available in the system file, and more floating around
>>the web. (Someone made an apple-shaped WDEF a few years ago for MacHack,
>>for instance.)
>>
>>Once you've got a suitable WDEF, you can use the decorations property to
>>set a stack to use that WDEF. Try these (using WDEFs available in the
>>system file):
>>
>>   set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 2 -- plain box
>>   set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 16 -- window with 
>>rounded corners
>>   set the decorations of stack "My Stack" to 1993 -- palette with title bar
>>at left side
>>
>>(Of course, the above applies only to Macs.)
>>
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