Thanks Devin, that’s a great explanation - my program, which is just a one stack-one card helper app, did start off with a red background. Later I changed the card background (remember, there’s only one card) but forgot about the stack background since it didn’t show. So there you have it.
We do seem to have found a smallish hole in the documentation about this sort of thing. Perhaps that’s what I should be reporting to the Quality Centre. While I’m on to explanations, in all my years of using LC and its predecessors, I have never understood what the right hand column in the ‘colors’ tab of the object inspector is for. The left hand column is straightforward: one just picks a color, for example “background fill”. But the next column leads to a strange popup list of icons (some are called ‘standard icons’, whatever that means). Why would I want my background fill to be a repeat of a lot of little forward arrows, for example? And if I did this by mistake, how can I delete this choice? I could not find a way. Proper patterns, as in wallpaper, I find easier to understand, even if I’ve never used them. Am I missing some tremendous feature? Or is this just of archeological interest? Just askin’ Cheers Graham > On 28 Feb 2018, at 16:41, Devin Asay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Graham, > > I think what is happening is that when you run in the IDE the parent stack of > the answer dialog stack is the LiveCode engine, which sets a > platform-appropriate background color (or no background color) for all child > stacks. When you include it in a standalone, your stack-made-standalone > becomes the parent stack, and whatever background color is set for that stack > is inherited by the answer dialog stack. At least I have seen this happen > with standalones that have a stack color set, and I’m fairly certain this is > what you’re seeing. What happens if you change your main stack’s background > color then rebuild the standalone? > > Devin > > > On Feb 28, 2018, at 8:01 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: > > Craig, you make an excellent point. We now know there is a stack named > “answer dialog” and that it has properties you can set. Surely the > documentation should explain this somewhere? > > By the way, when I said my red background had disappeared, it hadn’t. It’s > just that when you I through the script in the IDE, the background comes up > white, whereas in the standalone (both platforms), it comes up red. A bug, > surely? I will see if I can boil it down far enough to report it. > > Graham > > On 28 Feb 2018, at 14:50, dunbarx via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: > > As a follow-up, is there anywhere a list of all IDE stacks? For example, the > stack named "answer dialog", though perfectly logical, is not listed > anywhere, and the names of some stacks, like the script editor, have changed > over the several LC versions. > > It is a great way to get oneself in real trouble, but also useful if one > wants red answer dialog boxes. > > Craig > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > Devin Asay > Director > Office of Digital Humanities > Brigham Young University > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
