Hi Rob... Thanks for responding.
> Expecting a user to press the spacebar to "hit" your #defaultPushButton seems odd -- that's the Enter key's job, and Mui supports it. In Windows, along with the enter key, you can use the spacebar on buttons that have the focus in a dialog boxes. I'm not sure if this is also true for the Mac. > You're using General Purpose coding style to produce a dialog you could get from Standard style I always go for the general purpose MUIs. There are other MUIs in my project anyway. Supertramp notwithstanding, I usually take the long way home. You mentioned tabbing to the right button to get the focus, yet below is a MUI from a handler called showAbout() that I wrote for a separate projector that does indeed put that focus dotted line on a #pushbutton. I can't really figure out why it works on my showAbout() handler but not my editAnswerWarningNext() handler. Also, I was under the impression that #dialogUnit is the most versatile. A while back, I did some MUI testing on a Windows 95 machine and it had some settings for displaying large or small fonts in the UI. I understood #dialogUnit to be relative measurements, which took care of having large fonts bleed off the sides of fixed dimension dialog boxes. - Michael M. P.S. Thanks for the link. http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=888 on showAbout() beep gAbout = new(xtra "MUI") winList = getWindowPropList(gAbout) winList.type = #normal winList.name = "About Understanding the Hazard" winList.callback = "aboutChoice" winList.width = 280 winList.height = 40 winList.mode = #dialogUnit theList = [] widget = getItemPropList(gAbout) widget.type = #pushButton widget.title = "Confidentiality" widget.locH = 10 widget.locV = 10 widget.height = 20 widget.width = 80 add theList, widget widget = getItemPropList(gAbout) widget.type = #pushButton widget.title = "Some How-To's" widget.locH = 100 widget.locV = 10 widget.height = 20 widget.width = 80 add theList, widget widget = getItemPropList(gAbout) widget.type = #pushButton widget.title = "Credits" widget.locH = 190 widget.locV = 10 widget.height = 20 widget.width = 80 add theList, widget initialize(gAbout, [#windowPropList: winList, #windowItemList: theList]) run(gAbout) end on editAnswerWarningNext() -- determine what the dialog box says... gMUI = [:] theInstance = xtra("mui").new() gMUI.addProp(#instance, theInstance) -- create the window properties first... theWindowProps = gMUI.instance.getWindowPropList() theWindowProps.name = "Editing Your Answer(s)" theWindowProps.callback = "editAnswerWarningNextDecision" theWindowProps.mode = #dialogUnit theWindowProps.xPosition = -1 theWindowProps.yPosition = -1 theWindowProps.height = 75 theWindowProps.width = 280 theWindowProps.toolTips = FALSE -- create all the widgets next... theWindowItems = [] -- window begin tempWidget = gMUI.instance.getItemPropList() tempWidget.type = #windowBegin theWindowItems.add(tempWidget) -- icon tempWidget = [#value:"", #type:#bitmap, #attributes:[#bitmapIcon:#question], #title:"", #tip:"", #locH:10, #locV:10, #width:25, #height:25, #enabled:TRUE] theWindowItems.add(tempWidget) -- label theMsg = "Your response to this Knowledge Check is incomplete." theMsg = theMsg & RETURN & RETURN & "Are you sure you want to skip it and move ahead to the next screen?" tempWidget = [#value:theMsg, #type:#label, #attributes:[], #title:"check item", #tip:"tip", #locH:43, #locV:12, #width:300, #height:40, #enabled:TRUE] theWindowItems.add(tempWidget) -- Yes button tempWidget = [#value:1, #type:#pushButton, #attributes:[#textSize:#large, #textAlign: #left, #textStyle:[#bold]], #title:"Yes", #tip:"", #locH:43, #locV:50, #width:60, #height:13, #enabled:TRUE] theWindowItems.add(tempWidget) -- No button tempWidget = [#value:2, #type:#defaultpushButton, #attributes:[#textSize:#large, #textStyle:[#bold]], #title:"No", #tip:"", #locH:113, #locV:50, #width:60, #height:13, #enabled:TRUE] theWindowItems.add(tempWidget) -- Don't show again -- theValue = gTools.pProgress.pBackButtonAnswerReminder -- tempWidget = [#value:FALSE, #type:#checkBox, #attributes:[#textSize:#large, #textStyle:[#bold]], #title:"Do not show me again.", #tip:"", #locH:43, #locV:77, #width:180, #height:13, #enabled:TRUE] -- theWindowItems.add(tempWidget) -- window end tempWidget = gMUI.instance.getItemPropList() tempWidget.type = #windowEnd theWindowItems.add(tempWidget) ------------------------------------------------ gMUI.instance.initialize([#windowPropList: theWindowProps, #windowItemList: theWindowItems]) gMUI.instance.run() theDialog = gMui gMui = [:] -- void the global, better for memory return theDialog end [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
