Locking the Display of Individual Stacks (was Re: Possible data grid bug?)

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Feb 28 18:05:33 EST 2010


Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> Scott Rossi wrote:
>>> For folks who would like to be able to lock the display of one stack while
>>> displaying status in another stack:
>>>
>>> <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8638>
>> Good. I added a suggestion.
> 
>> lock screen = current behavior, no updates anywhere
>> lock window <window ref> = lock only the referenced window
> 
> When I was trying to think of syntax, I initially thought "lock stack" could
> be an option, but then realized this could imply making a stack non-writable
> -- not good.  If "window" is a synonym for "stack", then maybe locking this
> object still implies making the object non-writable, but I will admit,
> subjectively, "lock window" *sounds* OK to me.
> 
> Wasn't as easy a task as I initially imagined.... :-)

Doesn't matter. If Mr Waddingham implements it, he's likely to have his 
own syntax ideas. And to be honest, most of the time he's right. :)

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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