Open as palette

[Richard Gaskin]

Jim Hurley wrote:

>> Hi Jim,
>>
>>>  How do I get a stack to open  palette in the palette mode?
>>>
>>>  I've tried
>>>
>>>    on preopenstack
>>>      palette  stack "myStack"
>>>    end preopenstack
>>>
>>>  in the stack script.
>>
>>
>> i had great success with:
>>
>>    on preopenstack
>>      set the style of stack "xyz" to palette
>>      ## or ...of this stack...
>>    end preopenstack
 >>
> I was successful as well with your suggestion. I had played around with 
> every combination of "palette this stack" in a preopenstack script and a 
> preopencard  script. That message worked only when delivered from the 
> msg box.

I wonder why that should be necessary.  The style property of a stack is 
a persistent property, so if it's opened with the generic "open" command 
it should be fine.

Is this in the IDE or in a standalone?  Does the IDE use "open" or does 
it force modality by using "toplevel"?

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