CantModify/saveStackRequest

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Wed Nov 25 11:01:12 EST 2009


On 22.11.09 at 13:40 -0600 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:
>Mike Kerner wrote:
>>Sorry, y'all, it's been the better part of a year.
>>
>>If I have a stack that I want the user to be able to interact with,
>>including fields, but I don't want the changes to be saved, do I just catch
>>saveStackRequest, or is there some other way?
>>
>
>Set the cantmodify property of the stack to true, then save the 
>stack. This is a permanent property you only have to set once during 
>development. Make sure your stack is final before you set it, or the 
>stack won't save your own development changes either. ;)
>
>--
>Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


An alternative could be to open as modeless. If user opens the stack 
directly, you can switch the mode the preopenstack or by setting the 
style property. Unless I am mistaken, modeless stacks do not retain 
user entries.

Robert



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