Substacks vs. Backgrounds

[Stephen Barncard]

Actually, backgrounds/groups can make excellent dialogs, forms or 
floating palettes, as long as they stay within the window bounds of 
the stack. They are faster loading than an equivalent stack and they 
can have the advantage of being on the same card, which makes 
addressing simpler.

On the mac, the border feature on a group wil make a very attractive 
round rect panel for you.  They can also be partially transparent. A 
transparent button set to the screenrect can provide modality.


>Ken,
>Granted you can use backgrounds to share objects across multiple
>cards, but that isn't necessary, as you know.  I probably should have
>finished my 'dew before posting this morning.  Forget the sharing of
>objects for the moment.  For the purpose of building various
>dialogs/forms/etc., there doesn't appear to be any real advantage of
>one over the other to me, which is what brought this up in the first
>place after I discovered one of the problems I'm trying to figure out
>right now.

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stephen barncard
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