Puzzled about stack size

[Richard Gaskin]

Jim Hurley wrote:

> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> When the visible eludes, check the less visible:  what's in the custom
>> property sets for those objects?
>
> A reasonable assumption, but this was a very simple stack.
>
> These table fields are my new Zen Koan. Very ephemeral.
> 
> Try this:
> 
> 1) Create a stack with a single field.
> 2) Go to its property inspector and under "table" check the "table
> object" and "cell editing" boxes.
> 3) Put something in cells a1, a2, b1 and b2 (Excel notation.) Maybe
> just four letters, a,b,c,d.
> 4) In the message box type: put empty into field 1 -- As expected,
> the data disappears
> 5) Ah, but it's not gone. Go to the property inspector again and
> select "table".
> 6) Voila, the data returns.
> 
> It appears that table fields have a dual personality. (Mac OS 9, RR 2.1.2)

Indeed they do.  See the Rev custom property sets installed in the object.

If you need tabular display but nothing else, you can turn off the Table
option and just set the hGrid and vGrid properties to display tab-delimited
text in a columnar format.

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 Richard Gaskin 
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