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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: 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!

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

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

Simon

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

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

Drawer
Platforms desktop, server, web

Simon

karimariesk wrote: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!

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

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

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

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:40 pm

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?

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.

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.

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 02, 2024 7:07 pm

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.