czei@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) (02/27/89)
I'm designing a message stack, and now would like to modify the message reading card design to be a message posting design. At first I thought that I could use a homogenous stack and just put "OK" and "CANCEL" buttons over the other buttons in the "reading" card background to make a "posting" card, but buttons only seem to be associated with backgrounds. Why isn't there a card level button? So, if there isn't a card level button, the only way I can do this is to make a new background. Unfortunately, I would like this new card background to be at the beginning of the stack, and the doMenu "new card" method of creating a card sticks it "after" the current card. Isn't there an easy way of arranging the backgrounds in a heterogenous stack? Thanks for any pointers; working with heterogenous stacks has proved to be one large headache in an otherwise enjoyable pasttime. -- Michael S. Czeiszperger | "Ask me a riddle and I will reply, Systems Analyst | Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston pie" The Ohio State University | 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 ARPA:czei@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu PAN:CZEI (614) 292-0161
boone@neptune.uucp (Jeff Boone) (02/28/89)
In article <1542@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> czei@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes: > ...stuff deleted >.... Unfortunately, I would like this >new card background to be at the beginning of the stack, and the >doMenu "new card" method of creating a card sticks it "after" the >current card. > >Isn't there an easy way of arranging the backgrounds in a heterogenous >stack? > I ran into this same problem once before, and came up with a kludge to get around it. (1) Go to the first card in your stack and do a copy, and then a paste. This will give you two copies of the card. (2) Now get the new card that you want at the front of the stack by cutting or copying it. (3) Go to the first card of the stack and do a paste card. This will give you a sequence of: old first card, new first card, old first card... (4) Finally go to the first card of the stack and cut it. Hope this helps. ----------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Boone College of Oceanography Oregon State University boone@oce.orst.edu ----------------------------------------------------------
lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson) (02/28/89)
In article <1542@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>, czei@quanta (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes: >...but buttons >only seem to be associated with backgrounds. Why isn't there >a card level button? Certainly there are card level buttons! If you create a button, that button will be a background or card button, depending on whether you were in the background or not - precisely as with fields. Lars-Henrik Eriksson Internet: lhe@sics.se Swedish Institute of Computer Science Phone (intn'l): +46 8 752 15 09 Box 1263 Telefon (nat'l): 08 - 752 15 09 S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN --