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From: sanderso@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mark Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard questions
Keywords: Palette and Multifinder
Message-ID: <7739@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Feb 91 14:05:04 GMT
Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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Hello, I am new to this group and so all the usual appolgies if I am raking up
questions that have been asked before.


Question 1

I am using a palette created from the power tools stack, I don't want it to go
away but I don't see how to prevent the user from clicking the go away box in 
the palette. I also don't see any easy way of checking that the palette has
gone other than searching the window list. I noticed that the field palettes
used in the art stack and power tools send a message when the palette is closed
but not the power tools palette. The way I keep the palette on screen at the 
moment is to have an idle script that constantly calls the palette up. But
since hypercard is supposed to be an event based system, this is a smelly and
unpleasent solution.


Question 2

As far as I can see, there is no way of a stack knowing that it is about to
be switched out by MultiFinder. The resumeStack and suspendStack messages don't
work for multifinder switches. Is there any way other than using the suspended
variable to know if you are being switched out ?






					Thanks,


						Mark S.