Re: Opinions on openCard behavior
Ilan Rabinowitz (starnet!apple!fci.COM!ir)
Mon, 29 Nov 1993 14:01:07 +0800
>
> 3) change MetaCard to work like HyperCard, but add a "preOpenCard"
> message to support the old behavior.
>
> 4) add a "postOpenCard" message sent after all the redraws are done
> (perhaps on the first idle message sent to the card), which would act
> like openCard does in HyperCard.
>
> What is your preference?
>
> This may also be a problem with openStack, although we haven't seen
> it yet. The same options should be considered.
>
> We like 3,4. We have some cases where we do some stack geometry
> management that would benefit from the same messages sent for
> openStack (in addition to openCard).
>
Can both 3 and 4 be implemented? A user could pick one or the other
based on a preference switch.
- Ilan Rabinowitz -
ir@fci.com