Window Shape/Style

[Simon Lord]

Must be an PS 9 thing.  Have to dig further for an OS X solution...


On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 02:23 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> At 8:57 PM -0800 1/14/2002, Terry Judd wrote:
>> Your right, it definitely won't work! I also tried using this WDEF in
>> SuperCard and it brought the whole house down. Revs handling of
>> system WDEFs in general has me slightly confused. In SuperCard for
>> example you can set the WDEF of a window to any of the system WDEFs
>> (you can get a list of these from the system file using ResEdit) and
>> supply an additional variable to specify specific window decorations
>>
>> eg - set the wdef of wd 1 to "124,4"
>>
>> I'm not sure where the numbers Rev uses come from?
>
> It sounds like SuperCard has you specify the WDEF resource ID and the
> variation code independently. (A WDEF can support up to 16 
> variation codes,
> each one a variation of the basic window appearance coded by the WDEF.)
>
> In Rev and MetaCard, you instead multiply the resource ID by 16 
> and add the
> variation code as a number between zero and 15. For example, to use
> variation 6 of a fictional WDEF whose resource ID is 20, you'd 
> specify (20
> * 16) + 5 = 325:
>
>   set the decorations of stack "Whatever" to 325
>
> It sounds like the SuperCard syntax, or even better something 
> like "set the
> decorations of window to WDEF 20 with variation 5", is more 
> elegant - maybe
> something that could be added as an enhancement at some point. But the
> functionality is the same, you just have to remember the little formula
> above.
>
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