Stack jumps from top level to palette

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 6 08:45:00 EDT 2003


--- Jim Hurley <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Hi Jim,

It's not abnormal if you track down how that popup
menu actually works : it executes a 'toplevel' command
(or 'modal' or 'modeless' or 'palette')



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