understanding modeless stacks on OS X

[Alex Rice]

I have a preferences stack that I want to have the pinstripe background 
pattern on OS X, and I want to get rid of the ugly black box around the 
default button (OS X appearance manager button).

In the IDE, I just set the style to modeless, and it looks correct. In 
a standalone, the stack seems to be toplevel because there is a gray 
background instead of pinstripes and there is a black box around the 
default button. However, the stack reports that it is modeless. Here is 
the handler used to open the prefs stack.

on mouseUp
   set the loc of stack "Prefs" to the screenloc
   go stack "Prefs" -- also tried "as modeless"
   answer the style of stack "Prefs" -- says "modeless"
end mouseUp

Again, in the IDE, this handler shows a modeless stack that appears how 
I want it to. In standalone, it looks bad. Is this a bug?

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com