Find vs. Offset

[Robert Sneidar]

I did not know that! At least, I think I might have known that, and forgot, and then been reminded again, and then forgot again! 

Bob


On Dec 17, 2012, at 7:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 12/17/12 5:54 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>> I do see that there is much more management with the "offset",
>> however, I believe I can use the offset without having to actually
>> navigate to the other stack, and I found that going to another stack
>> and using the "Find" there unlocks the screen (bad).
> 
> The lockscreen command should really be called "lockWindow". It's a holdover from HyperCard where the stack did take up the whole screen (at first, anyway) so the two were essentially the same thing. Going to another stack will always force a redraw. You can lock the screen again after going there but you'll see the stack change.
> 
> One trick that might work is to go to the other stacks invisibly. That will leave the first stack on screen and visually nothing will appear to change. Use "go invisible stack <stackname>". You shouldn't need to use lockscreen if you do that.
> 
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