At 1:44 PM -0500 4/2/01, Sharon Moeller wrote:
>I have a screen where if the wrong thing is clicked on, another
>screen pops up with an error box. The problem I am having is that I
>have very stupidly left the buttons underneath is error screen
>active. Will a stop event prevent the other buttons from executing
>their scripts? If not, is there a quick way for me to prevent other
>buttons from executing their script if clicked on while these error
>screens are visible?
>
If I understand what you are asking, you want to simulate a "modal"
dialog box so that the user can only interact with the dialog while
it is up and not interact with anything outside of it, If this is
what you want there is a simple trick to this. You can use the tool
palette to create a shape castmember of an invisible rectangle -
large enough to cover the whole screen. Then in the frame where you
put up your error dialog screen, also put up the invisible rectangle
in a channel above all the main screen sprites, but below all your
error dialog sprites. Then attach a behavior like this:
on mouseDown me
beep -- if you want
end
on mouseUp me
beep -- if you want
end
I call this a "mouse catcher".
Irv
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