newbie: when to use substacks?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Alex Rice <alrice at ARCplanning.com> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 06:10  PM, tom farrell
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi...
> >
> > Any pointer/hints/suggestions/reminiscences about
> when you decide to 
> > use a main+substack design rather than just one
> monolithic main stack?
> >
> > thanks in advance for any time you might have for
> a reply.
> 
> I think another reason is the geometry manager only
> works well for 1 
> card per stack. (someone correct me if I'm wrong)
> 
> Alex Rice


Hi Alex,

I've been using the Geometry Manager quite a bit the
past 3 weeks and never had problems with different
cards in the same stack with their own geometry
setups.

As for splitting things up in mainstack/substacks, I
do it for 2 reasons: the first is that it makes
managing library stacks a lot faster, the second is
that I like to make one substack per menuitem, so the
screens are logically grouped and easier to manage.
For example, in my current project, I have a stack for
customer administration with 3 cards : 1 with the
customer data, 1 to display the history of the current
customer, and 1 with various statistical data.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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