Problems with Drawer Menu

[karimariesk]

Hello! I'm new to livecode, im trying to call a stack to act as a drawer menu for other stack. i do this with:

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 drawer stack "DrawerMenu" at left of stack "Eventos" aligned to left

that line is inside a swipe detector.
that works perfectly, but i have an issue. i want part of the backgroud stack to be shown, but have no idea how.
thanks in advance!

[Klaus]

Hi karimariesk,

1. welcome to the forum!

2. This is the iOS forum, are you takling about an iOS app/stack?
I ask because:
a. the "drawer" command is actually only available on desktop machines
and only on a Mac they display REAL drawers, on Win and Linux the target
stacks will be opened as PALETTE windows.
b. on mobile there can only be ONE stack open/visible at a time.

So I'm a bit puzzled!


Best

Klaus

[Simon]

This sounds like;
http://forums.livecode.com/phpBB2/viewt ... 082#p92082
nice sliding panels.

Simon

[karimariesk]

Hi! thanks for the reply. Yes it's for IOS. so i cant use the drawer command? didnt know that.
The link seems promising! i'll try it been fighting with this for 2-3 days already

[Simon]

Hi Kari,
In the dictionary it always notes which platform each command works for.

Drawer
Platforms desktop, server, web

Simon

[Klaus]

i'll try it been fighting with this for 2-3 days already

No comment!

What Simon said, the dictionary is not your enemy, au contraire, mon ami!

[LiveCode_Panos]

Hi all,

Just to add that drawer stacks on OS X are not supported since we moved to Cocoa (in LiveCode 6.7.0). In other words, the "drawer" command will work only with LiveCode versions < 6.7.0

Best,
Panos
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[Klaus]

AHA! So "drawers" are a Carbon thing!?
Didn't know that, thank you!

[FourthWorld]

I think Apple deprecated Drawers about the time they dropped Metal backgrounds, but I can't recall which version that was.

[richmond62]

Indeed: But LiveCode left the information in the Dictionary so we could waste a lot of time chasing a phantom.

[Klaus]

Indeed: But LiveCode left the information in the Dictionary so we could waste a lot of time chasing a phantom.

Did you report that bug?

[richmond62]

No, because someone asked me to explain it to them for the first time today: I have never used it.

In fact it is not a bug, it has got to do with when Apple started using Cocoa.

LiveCode should have either removed 'drawer' from the Dictionary, or flagged as only working on versions before 6.7.0.

[richmond62]

What is very interesting is the claim:

Just to add that drawer stacks on OS X are not supported since we moved to Cocoa (in LiveCode 6.7.0). In other words, the "drawer" command will work only with LiveCode versions < 6.7.0

which does not explain why LiveCode cannot do this on Xubuntu 23.10 despite the Dictionary's claim that this is a cross-platform feature.

[FourthWorld]

What is very interesting is the claim:

Just to add that drawer stacks on OS X are not supported since we moved to Cocoa (in LiveCode 6.7.0). In other words, the "drawer" command will work only with LiveCode versions < 6.7.0

which does not explain why LiveCode cannot do this on Xubuntu 23.10 despite the Dictionary's claim that this is a cross-platform feature.

The syntax is handed on each platform in a way that conforms to the user interface expectations of that platform.

From the Dictionary entry:

Cross-platform note: On Mac OS, Unix, and Windows systems, drawers are not supported, so the drawer command opens the stack as a palette instead. The palette uses the current rectangle of the stack and does not resize or move it.