I'd rather stick with the dialog and not a new create/modify window for the simple reason, when a dialog is opened, the user cannot really access any fields through a gain focus (mouse click) until the dialog is closed so that gives you more control on the user..
Joe D'Souza Remedy Developer / Consultant, BearingPoint, Virginia. ----- Original Message ---- From: Carey Matthew Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2007 1:14:09 PM Subject: Re: RANT: Diary fields in a dialog box.... Hum... Resize could be done via views designed for specific desktop sizes... (with window open/close events to switch views.) Not as "any sized" as the original, but very close. Writing the field contents to a file... Sounds like a Report to file to me. Reading a files contents into the field.... sounds like a $PROCESS$ more|less|type call to me. (likely not working on the Web however.) And I think you could even make it a "non-dialog" window too. (If your first window was not a dialog.) and let you keep multiple of those windows open at a time. -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two. On 2/8/07, Joe DeSouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** > > > Strange but thats exactly what me and a colleague of mine designed.. I've > decided to hide the expansion box of the diary field and build another > dialog having 2 fields for the edit and non edit part and 2 buttons OK and > Cancel and emulate the diary field functionality using a small button near > the actual diary field that brings up this second dialog.. > > > > Only functions that users wont be able to do is resize the dialog and have > these 2 fields resize automatically, and the option of saving the contents > of a diary field to a file or writing from a file to the diary field.. you > cant really get it all and yet make it look like the original field.. I > could add the edit boxes for those 2 fields but the look and feel will > differ distintively.. > > > > Rgds > > Joe D'Souza > Remedy Developer / Consultant, > BearingPoint, > Virginia. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
