Re: [Pythoncard-users] moving menubar and getting rid of stack?

[Rowland S. <ro...@we...>]

Kevin Altis wrote:

>>From: Andy Todd
>>
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>>The separation of the window from the background is quite a powerful
>>'feature'. One of the neat things you can do in Oracle forms is
>>dynamically/programatically swap the canvases (backgrounds in our
>>terminology) within a window. This allows some pretty fancy layout - but
>>then again may be too complicated for our kind of applications. Its a
>>feature that I have used in the past, but I don't have a sample
>>application in mind which would need it - yet.
>>
> 
> Yes, this is a bit more like HyperCard. This still feels like an app that
> should be built on top of the framework and not the framework itself. What
> do other people think?


Setting a Form on a Window ( myWindow.setForm( f ) ) is a reasonable 
responsibility for a Window to fullfill.  This would allow the user to 
build their own navigation system for viewing different Forms in the 
same window.

A higher level class like MultiFormWindow could be constructed with a 
list of Forms, and provide navigation between the forms in the list. 
This is like HyperCard where each Card has a different background and 
allows the creation of multi-media style apps.


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