substack behavior

[Klaus Major]

Hi Rand,

>   Greetings to all, and many thanks for all of the helpful posts to 
> this
> list. I'm working on a fairly elaborate database (a dictionary research
> tool), using RR 2.0. I want to be able to provide myself and my 
> research
> partner with reference materials, and the logical way to do this would 
> seem
> to be to have floating substacks that provide different kinds of 
> information
> in fields. But when I open a substack, I have to negotiate all of the 
> open
> stack, close stack, etc. stuff -- but what I really want is just a 
> floating
> window that provides information -- is there any way to suppress the
> open-stack messages and that sort of stuff? It's easy enough to have a 
> blank
> open-stack handler in the sub-stack, e.g.,
>
> on openstack
>
> end openstack
>
> but this seems kludgy and there may be all sorts of handlers going off 
> that
> I'm unaware of -- is there like a global setting for a stack that goes 
> --
> pretend this isn't a stack but just a popup window? Thanks.

on mouseup ## or whenever
    set the lockmessages to true
    ## this might be what you're after...

   palette stack "xyz"
   ## or toplevel or...
    ...
end mouseup

> rand valentine

Hope that helps.


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de