Stack jumps from top level to palette

[Jim Hurley]

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>Message: 12
>Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:43:06 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: Stack jumps from top level to palette
>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
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>--- Jim Hurley <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
>>  I've got serious troubles.
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>>  I have a stack (with *lot* of stuff) that I think
>>  may have become corrupted.
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>>  Every time I press command 2 or 3 to move to the
>>  previous or next
>>  card (Mac OS), the stack changes from toplevel to
>>  palette. If I type
>>  "go to next card" in the message box, the stack
>>  changes from top
>>  level to palette. Buttons with handles "go to next
>>  card" take me to
>>  the palette mode.
>>
>>  The arrow keys will move me from card to card
>>  without the change in stack mode.
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>>  This happens only with this one stack so it probably
>>  is not a corrupted engine.
>>
>>  There is noting in the stack script which should
>>  cause this behavior.
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>>  Any ideas?
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>>  Troubled,
>>
>>  Jim
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>Hi Jim,
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>What is the content of the 'style' property of the
>stack ? I was bitten a while back by a stack that had
>accidentally been set to modeless and kept jumping
>back to it whenever I opened it.
>   set the style of stack "Foobar" to "toplevel"
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>Hope this helped,
>
>Jan Schenkel.
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Jan,

I was about to reply that I have been resetting the mode to toplevel 
every time it jumped to palette mode, perhaps a couple of dozen 
times--every time I changed cards. I was making the change from the 
pop up contextual sensitive menu (command-control-shift-click on the 
Mac.)

But I thought I would first follow your advice literally and so I set 
the style to toplevel in the message box. Eureka! This time it stuck. 
It turns out that using the menu palette is ephemeral. It only 
changes the mode temporarily. The mode reverts back to palette after 
command 3 to go to the next card.

Very odd.

Thank you Jan.

Jim