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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: experiences with 2.0
Message-ID: <10350@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 91 23:33:34 GMT
References: <1991Jan18.190735.17999@arc.ab.ca>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <1991Jan18.190735.17999@arc.ab.ca> marlene@arcsun.arc.ab.ca (Marlene Jones) writes:
>HC Bugs:

  [ Bugs deleted ]

>(4)  Move the window of a stack off of the screen.  Close the stack.  Reopen 
>the stack.  The stack reappears.  I can understand the motivation for 
>making the stack visible upon open, but a stack wouldn't
>become invisible in this manner without some explicit (and desired) scripted
>action.  Can you guess?   I want to launch HC without having the home stack
>appear.

  A stack, in fact, can become invisible in that manner without a scripted
action.  In fact, this situation is far more common than are scripts which
move the window offscreen.

  Suppose you create a stack on a 19" monitor, move it to the lower-right
corner, and quit HyperCard.  Drag your stack onto a floppy and take it over
to your Mac Plus.  Chances are that when you open the stack on the Plus you
want it on the screen.

  A suggestion to the HyperCard team might be to check, when the stack's
position is being saved, whether the stack intersects at all with the
current screen, and if not, then the next time the stack is opened the code
which moves the window onscreen is not executed.  However, this flies in the
face of the assumption that most people don't want their open stacks 
inaccessible, and could lead to serious user interface difficulties.

-- Mark Wilkins

P.S.  A better way is some kind of "hide stack" command which takes care of
it for you, in case someone is thinking of implementing this.
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