On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From 2.3b5 release notes:
>
> >The answer command now takes an optional type parameter which allows
> >changing the icon shown:
> >answer [information | question | error | warning] <prompt> \
> > [with <b1> [or <b2 ..]] [titled <exp>]
>
> I've been using this new icon feature in the answer dialog.
>
> When I package the stack as a stand-alone application (on the Mac -
> haven't check this yet on Windows) the answer dialog displays some
> strange
> characteristics:
> - the text font used in the dialog changes.
> - the font size is smaller
> - and the font itself may have changed
> - the buttons (OK, Cancel etc) have a different appearance, and
> don't look as good
> as they do normally (they appear to be slightly askew/not in line
> with each other), and the dialog icon does not display.
>
> Are interface elements like the answer dialog actually stacks, and as
> such capable of being edited by the developer?
Yes. After moving them over with the resource mover, you can edit
them to make them look any way you want. Be sure you're editing your
stacks and not the ones in the tools stack: To open them,
specify a full path, as in:
go to stack "Answer Dialog" of stack "your main stack"
> Prior to building the application I've imported the answer dialog and
> MC icons into the stack (I don't use the MC icons, but I thought
> might have been required by the dialog icon feature).
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? Is there anything I could try
> to fix this problem at my end?
The font is being inherited from your main stack. You should usually
set the font of the main stack to the font you want all the buttons
and other UI elements to use, otherwise you have to set them for each
object (including substacks) to some other font.
As for the icon being missing, the problem was that the required icons
were not moved over with the resource mover in B5. Try the resource
mover in the gamma-test release, in which this problem was fixed.
Regards,
Scott
> Thanks for you help.
>
> R.
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