: Re: Stack jumps from top level to palette

[Jim Hurley]

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

Jan Schenkel worte:

>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')
>
>>From the Transcript dictionary entry for 'go' :
>----
>Important!  The style of the stack, if it is anything
>other than “topLevel”, overrides any mode
>you specify in a go command. For example, if you open
>a stack using the statement go stack "Some Stack" as
>modeless, and the style of “Some Stack” is
>set to “palette”, it opens as a palette
>rather than a modeless dialog box, ignoring the mode
>you specified.

As if I didn't have enough troubles learning transcript without it 
ignoring me. :-)
I think I'll ignore it for the rest of the day and watch some  Wimbledon.

Jim

>----
>
>Hope this helped,
>
>Jan Schenkel.