Reporting Metacard Bugs
    J. Landman Gay 
    jacque at hyperactivesw.com
       
    Sun May 14 18:02:40 CDT 2006
    
    
  
Ken Ray wrote:
> OK, I installed Ubuntu Breezy Badger and did some testing and here's what I
> discovered:
> 
> 1) Floating palettes just aren't... if you palette a stack and ask for its
> style, it comes back as "toplevel", and acts like a toplevel stack.
> 
> 2) For the reason stated in (1), all stacks open with default decorations -
> this causes the palettes (tools, properties) and modeless windows (like the
> Message Box) to display the minimize, maximize and close boxes (or if the
> 'resizable' of the stack is false, the maximize button is not displayed).
> 
> (So, Bob, you shouldn't even be *able* to minimize those stacks - they are
> supposed to only have a close box.)
In Revolution, the message box is a palette. But in MC, at least in OS 
X, my message box is modeless with all three buttons. I can minimize, 
maximize, and close it. So I think the message box decorations are 
correct in MC Linux, it is just the behavior that isn't.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
    
    
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