defaultStack Scope

[Chipp Walters]

Doesn't work that way on my machine (WinXP). Open Rev -> Create New Stack
and name it "foo". Type:

put the defaultstack

into the messagebox

returns:

stack "foo"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Dan Shafer
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 12:30 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: defaultStack Scope
>
>
> >Appears to me, it's the last non palette stack to have focus.
> So, changing
> >focus of a stack makes it the defaultStack.
>
> Which I think explains what I'm seeing. Message Box is a stack. So
> when I type into it, it changes the defaultStack I just set? But it
> goes to the topStack, which isn't message box because it's a palette?
> So what am I not getting?
>
> >-Chipp
> >
> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> >>  [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Dan Shafer
> >>  Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:13 AM
> >>  To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> >>  Subject: defaultStack Scope
> >>
> >>
> >>  It appears that setting the defaultStack of a stack file is a
> >>  temporary action. If I change it from the Message Box, e.g., it never
> >>  "sticks." If I say:
> >>
> >>  set the defaultStack to "Foo"
> >>
> >>  and then
> >>
> >>  put the defaultStack
> >>
> >>  it always returns the stack that was the default before I typed
> >>  the message.
> >>
> >>  I can put the same two commands in a button's mouseUp handler and
> >>  it works.
> >>
> >>  So the question is what else can reset the defaultStack property
> >>  without my doing so explicitly?
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