understanding modeless stacks on OS X

[Mark Talluto]

On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 10:53 PM, Alex Rice wrote:

> 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?
>
>

I am relatively new to Rev, but I remember seeing in the distribution 
builder a checkbox for using the REV IDE colors.  Uncheck that box and 
everything should be cool for you.



Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com