Cloning stacks invisibly?

[Terry Judd]

Thanks Sarah - I'll give that a go.

Cheers,

Terry...


> Hi Terry,
>
>> Is there any way to clone a stack invisibly? I've tried setting the 
>> loc of the stack to be cloned offscreen but the newly cloned stack 
>> still appears onscreen (at least under OSX).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> Here's what I do, which clones a stack & positions the clone invisibly:
>
> BEFORE cloning the stack, set a custom property of the template stack. 
> In this example, I set the cStoredRect of the template to the the rect 
> I want. Then I have this handler in the stack or card script of the 
> template stack:
>
> on preOpenStack
>   go invisible to this stack
>   if the cStoredRect of this stack is not empty
>   then set the rect of this stack to the cStoredRect of this stack
> end preOpenStack
>
> After changing the stack name & setting up the display, I then show 
> the newly cloned stack. This works really well and I get no flickers.
>
> HTH,
> Sarah