paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) (12/02/87)
Is this a feature or a bug? I was happily writing a simple stack to accompany an article in a Dutch computer magazine. I made a recipe stack (I know, boring ;) that had four background fields, one transparent, one rectangle and two scrolling. But making the scrolling fields I discovered something peculiar: When I made the scrolling fields in the background mode, they would not show up in the card. However, is I made the fields in foreground mode, cut and paste them into the background, they _would_ show up on every card... Weird. Any1 any clue? Remark: I know this has been discussed before, but it still is amazing... I also made a stack to look up all Dutch area codes. All names and area codes were in a file about 48Kb large. But when I put them in a stack, the file-size of that stack was an amazing 450kb!!! Even after compacting the beast. And all I used was one background and nothing but two fields and two buttons in that background. If Bill did such a good job on compacting pictures, he might make an effort in compacting the stack-size in general!!! . -- Paul Molenaar "Just checking the walls" - Basil Fawlty -