Hi Chip,

None really. I just pulled this script out of a larger script that I feed other parameters which let me center a stack's loc to the bottom of the screen or 'centerRight', for example. I thought somebody else might want it broken out like this so they can do their own spin offs.

Ray

On Sunday, July 25, 2004, at 04:20 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

Ray,

I must be missing someting...how is this different from setting the loc of stack xyz to the screenloc?

-Chipp

Ray Horsley wrote:

Here's a short script I use to center any window before showing it:
on placeWindow win
  put the screenRect into scrRct
  put (item 3 of scrRct - width of window win)/2 into tmpNum
  put round(tmpNum) into myTopLeft
  put (item 4 of scrRct - height of window win)/2 into tmpNum
  put round(tmpNum) into item 2 of myTopLeft
  set topLeft of window win to myTopLeft
end placeWindow
On Saturday, July 24, 2004, at 04:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 7/24/04 12:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

Wilhelm Sanke wrote:

I wonder whether you list members would be interested to have slightly modified ask- and answer-dialogs with the new version of the IDE that allow placing these dialogs anywhere on the screen or relative to the stack they are launched from.
Such a minor change would add flexibility to the dialogs, and it is a feature some Metacard and Revolution users had asked for in the past.


See my stack "Place Dialogs" on <http://www.sanke.org> , English version, page "Tools and Samples for Development"; the stack contains examples and information.

All that is needed are two script lines added before the end of the preopenstack handlers:

" if the NewLoc of this stack is not empty then set the loc of this stack to the NewLoc of this stack
set the NewLoc of this stack to empty "


The stacks can be used as usual if no NewLoc property is set.

Line 2 of the script makes sure to restore the default behavior of the dialogs the next time they are opened without a specified "NewLoc".

Thank you for your willingness to contribute. Scott Rossi has already offered to work on the Ask and Answer dialogs -- maybe the two of you could work out those enhancements?
Doesn't Rev provide support for specifying the loc of those dialogs? If so, can we use their syntax?


I have no objection to this change. But I am not clear why we need it; doesn't this do the same thing:

 set the loc of stack "answer dialog" to myloc

It is only a single line, which is the same amount of space it would take to set a stack property. Am I missing something?

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