Re: stay ups/single lines (2 questions)

Scott Raney ((no email))
Thu, 10 Nov 94 12:29:44 MST

>
> Hello MetaCard'ers
> I'll get right to the point........
> First question: I am working on a stack with multiple, single-line text
> entry fields. Catch is these fields MUST be single line only. I do not
> want the cursor to go to next line when a return is hit; at best, I want
> the cursor to simply go away until the user selects the next textfield
> requiring data input. How do I not make a field contain multiple lines?
> It appears that default for a field is multiple lines of text. I did
> discover a "work around" : on returninField go to line 1 of this field
> end returninField. I'm hoping someone can tell me that I can do away
> with the work around!

Setting the autoTab property to true will make the field do what you
want.

> Second question: This stack I am working on is full size. In other
> words, it occupies the entire screen. Across the top is a menu bar and
> the rest of the screen is a world map. The menu bar permits the user to
> access various activites that I have made as different stacks. Each
> menu selection appears in its own window. The user may have to interact
> between the full screen menubar/map and the newly launched stack. The
> problem is that once he returns focus to the full screen menubar/map the
> other window gets buried behind the full screen. I need to figure out
> how to have the stacks launched from my menubar stay on top. I have
> tried adjusting my window manager, and even tried changing window
> managers (fvwm, mwm) but MetaCard appears to override 'em all! I did
> notice tho that the MetaCard Helps or References or Tutorials will
> always stay on top....so apparently it can be done.....its just a matter
> of knowing how?

X window managers (and even the X ICCCM specification) have a pretty
undeveloped sense of what floating palettes are and how they should be
positioned. So, the short answer to your question is that there is no
way to do what you're trying to do. You can open modal dialogs such
that they'll work this way (they set the transientfor hint to the
topStack), but you won't be able to interact with the main window as
long as the modal is open.

You might try running MetaCard with the -r option to make it draw into
the root window. Note that this won't work on many systems due to
conflicts with the window manager (e.g., virtual window managers and
the VUE/COSE desktop), but if you've got a vanilla MIT X11 system it
might be a good solution to your problem.
Scott

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>
>
> Donald R. Barnhart (barney)
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