Displaying a stack as sheet

[Peter Haworth]

"close this stack".  I don't think there's any standard close button added
for windows, you'd use the same mechanism as OSX

Pete
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’m wanting to display a stack as a sheet. It shows help text over the
> current card. This is a cross-platform application for Mac and Windows
> desktop.
>
> The stack has a field for the help text, an image, and a button to click
> on to hide the sheet.  I’ve got it to show correctly on my Mac, but:
>
> 1. How do I dismiss it? Clicking on the button to send a message “hide
> stack tStack” doesn’t do it. A script in the button to “exit…”?
>
> 2. On Windows I understand it will show as a modal dialog. Does this mean
> there will be a standard “Cancel” button added on automatically? Will the
> size of the stack be maintained along with control placement?
>
> The dictionary is kind of vague about this…
>
> Peter Bogdanoff
> UCLA
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