Re: Answer Dialog location

2013-07-27 Thread Alan Stenhouse
G'day Cal Quote from the online docs: --- The position and appearance of the dialog box varies between platforms. On Mac OS systems, the dialog box is centered on the screen; on Unix and Windows systems, the dialog box is centered over the active window. On Windows systems, the buttons are

Re: Answer Dialog location

2013-07-27 Thread Scott Rossi
Good point about the platform being key -- had forgot about that in my X-centric view. But Cal might be able to make use of the suspendStack handler to position the answer dialog in the preferred location. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Jul 27, 2013, at

Re: Answer Dialog location

2013-07-27 Thread Roger Eller
Make a tiny hidden substack that stays at the screenLoc (hidden). On Windows, go to stack screenCenter before calling answer. ~Roger On Jul 27, 2013 5:22 AM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Good point about the platform being key -- had forgot about that in my X-centric view. But

Answer Dialog location

2013-07-26 Thread Cal Horner
I have implemented a modified error checking handler in the topmost stack in a multi-stack application and the standard answer dialog is popping up over the topmost stack instead of in the middle of the screen. To me this is a problem. I was sure that I had seen an answer to my problem in the

Re: Answer Dialog location

2013-07-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Are you sure you don't have a handler somewhere that is positioning the dialog? Because the default behavior *is* to position the answer dialog in the middle of the main display. This is the routine I use when I want the dialog to appear at a specific location: on suspendStack if answer