Answer Dialog at ScreenLoc?

xbury.cs at clearstream.com xbury.cs at clearstream.com
Thu Sep 1 03:52:32 CDT 2005


I think it would be wise to also include the "ask dialog"

if the short name of this stack is among the items of "Answer Dialog,ask 
dialog" then 

Regards,
---------------------=---------------------
Xavier Bury

metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 01/09/2005 10:37:05:

> Scott Rossi wrote:
> > Recently, Scott Rossi  wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>Aside from modifying its code, is there a trick to forcing the 
> answer dialog
> >>>to appear at the screenLoc?
> >>
> >>Here's a workaround that seems to work in both MC and Rev:
> >>
> >>go inv stack "answer dialog"
> >>answer "This dialog is now centered."
> >>set loc of stack "answer dialog" to the screenLoc
> >>show stack "answer dialog"
> > 
> > 
> > Whoops - maybe I spoke too soon.  No way to get the response values 
(yes, no
> > cancel, etc).  But if one is only displaying data, such as an alert, 
this
> > might be acceptable.
> 
> In the very rare cases where I want the dialog screen-centered 
> throughout the program, I've found this works well in a frontScript:
> 
> on preOpenStack
>    if the short name of this stack is "Answer Dialog" then
>      set the loc of this stack to the screenLoc
>    end if
>    pass preOpenStack
> end preOpenStack
> 
> 
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