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[Jim Ault]

On 2/2/06 4:32 PM, "Robert Presender" <rpresender at cox.net> wrote:
 >With btns, the btn name appears in the middle of the window. When the name
> is clicked, the name drops down and the icon appears as it should with
> the btn name.  Don't understand the shift in appearance.  The height of
> the btns fit ok into the stack height as shown that it works in
> development. 
Not my area of expertise, but my next approach would be to open the message
watcher and find out what events are triggered on the mouseup to the button.
In the IDE, all works well, but the SA does not react properly until the
mouseup.
(SA = standalone)

By inference, you may be able to determine that the SA is absorbing a
message during opening that the IDE does not.  This might mean the work
around is to send that message, or watch for anything that would be
configured differently in the SA.

The inverse is that there is something that gets triggered in the SA that
hides the icons, or sets them to empty until your mouseup.

A work around could be to
[ preopen, yada yada, send "mouseup" to btn stubbornImgHolder ]

Aaaaand if that doesn't work, then maybe
   'click at the loc of btn VeryStubbornImgHolder'


Hope this helps  

Jim Ault
Las Vegas



> Hi Rob,
> 
> It has been a while since we 'talked'.  Thanks for you input.
> 
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bob,
>> 
>>> I have a substack to create a menubar. Its card  consists of a group
>>> of 14 menu btns
>>> each with their own icon ids and names. The size of the group is the
>>> same as the size of the stack (800/45).  The stack doesn't have a
>>> menubar of its own.
>>> 
>>> [snip]
>>> 
>>> Upon creating a standalone, only the btn names appear but  clicking on
>>> a btn name,
>>> the icon appears with it's btn name.
>> 
>> I presume the icon images reside in the substack (Y/N?).
> 
> Icons reside in another substack.  start using stack "Images" is in
> openstack
> handler of the menubar stack.
> 
> It should be noted, as I indicated in my original message, that if I
> use the icons without btns, the icons show up in the standalone.  With
> btns, the btn name appears in the middle of the window. When the name
> is clicked, the name drops down and the icon appears as it should with
> the btn name.  Don't understand the shift in appearance.  The height of
> the btns fit ok into the stack height as shown that it works in
> development.
> 
> I also tried different style for the btns.  No help with this either.
> 
> As a last resort, I would have to have two substacks. One with the
> icons and the other with names of the icon.  Rather not go that way.
> 
>> When does the standalone main stack explicitly open the substack?
> 
> Upon opening the standalone, the splash screen is shown followed by an
> About followed by a Reminder substack. A btn handler on the Reminder
> card has
> go stack "BaseMenu", close stack "Reminder".
> 
>> What happens if the following handler is in the substack stack script?:
>> 
>> on preOpenStack
>> repeat with x = 1 to the number of buttons
>> set the icon of button x to (the icon of button x)
>> end repeat
>> end preOpenStack
> 
> No help with the above handler.  Any other suggestions?
> 
> Regards ... Bob