Re: 2D MetaCard

Scott Raney ((no email))
Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16:50:58 -0700 (MST)

>
> Subject: 2D MetaCard
>
> How come???
> When I type the name of my stack on the command line my stack runs but it has
> a flat 2 dimensional appearance. However, when I start up MetaCard first and
> open my stack, it has the standard Motif 3 dimensional appearance? Any help
> is appreciated.

The problem is that the colors of your stack haven't been set. When
you run your stack from the Home stack, it inherits the colors of the
Home stack. Normally the "colors" property of a stack is set to the
"colors" property of the Home stack when you pick "Save as..." from
the File menu, but if you set the mainStack of the stack first it
doesn't do this.

To fix this, open your stack and then either choose colors (at least
foreground, background, top, and bottom) for it using the color
chooser, or set them all at once by typing something like the
following into the Message Box:

set the colors of stack "my stack" to the colors of stack "Home"

If you save your stack after doing this, the next time you run it
stand-alone, it will use the same 3D color scheme used in the Home
stack.

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