Re: Answer Dialog location
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 shown in reverse order (the first button is on the right side). --- Presumably you're on windows/linux...? One solution might be to create a small stack for use when using your error answer dialog and set it's location to the middle of the screen (and invisible) and then close it when you're done...? i.e. so whenever you run your error handler you open inv the window in the screenloc and then answer your info... Does that make sense? HTH cheers Alan On 27/07/2013, at 6:43 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: 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 forum, but I can't find that answer anywhere. Just replies that tell us to build our own dialog stack. Which I would rather not do at this late stage in the project. Surely there must be a simple answer such as setting the location of the answer stack. Please answer with something simple, other than building my own stack. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Answer Dialog location
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 1:24 AM, Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com wrote: The position and appearance of the dialog box varies between platforms. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Answer Dialog location
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 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 1:24 AM, Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com wrote: The position and appearance of the dialog box varies between platforms. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Answer Dialog location
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 forum, but I can't find that answer anywhere. Just replies that tell us to build our own dialog stack. Which I would rather not do at this late stage in the project. Surely there must be a simple answer such as setting the location of the answer stack. Please answer with something simple, other than building my own stack. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Answer Dialog location
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 dialog is among the lines of the openStacks then set the topLeft of stack answer dialog to 100,100 end if end suspendStack I've never had to use any script to position the answer dialog in the middle of the screen since it (should) just work that way. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 7/26/13 9:43 PM, Cal Horner calhor...@xtra.co.nz wrote: 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 forum, but I can't find that answer anywhere. Just replies that tell us to build our own dialog stack. Which I would rather not do at this late stage in the project. Surely there must be a simple answer such as setting the location of the answer stack. Please answer with something simple, other than building my own stack. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
