yesss! ashbb!
that exactly does what I need. I had thought to chain the windows with url
like in your example, but I wasn't aware it was working like that, I had
tried with the visit() method instead with apparently no success at all.
OH! you just opened the door to a whole new props set in there, exciting!
thanks!
L-P
2008/11/1 Satoshi Asakawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Louis,
>
> I see... Thanks for the good explanation and sample code.
>
> > the user answer before he gets to the main.
> Umm... Okay, let me try one more time. ;-)
>
> Is it necessary to open two windows at once?
> If not, how about the following?
>
> class Sample < Shoes
> $a = 'nothing'
>
> url '/', :index
> url '/main', :main
>
> def index
> para "What would you like?"
> button('yes'){$a = "YES"; clear; main}
> button('no'){$a = "NO"; clear; main}
> end
>
> def main
> button("what?") {alert("You choosed #{$a}")}
> end
> end
>
> Shoes.app :width => 200, :height => 120
>
> Hope I've not misunderstood, :-P
> ashbb
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Louis-Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Hi ashbb,
>> this is cool but but doesn't really get me to what I am trying to do...
>>
>> what I am trying to do to automatically present my user with a yes/no
>> setup question popping up over the the main application window at startup.
>> All the logic is already designed and working. I just need to make sure
>> the popup appear over the main window so that the user answer before he gets
>> to the main. confirm() seemed perfect because it ALWAYS gets on top, its
>> only my question would really need to be twisted for it to make sense with
>> ok/cancel choice, not very elegant. Since confirm() is nor an option, I am
>> trying to have it working with dialog(), but its kinda random if the
>> dialog() window appears over the main window, and I didn't find any info
>> about window ordering in the documentation.
>>
>> a sample of code which illustrate this would be:
>>
>> Shoes.app do
>> $a = 'nothing'
>> stack do
>> para "MUST BE UNDER - THIS IS MAIN WINDOW"
>> button("what?") { alert("You choosed #{$a}")}
>> end
>>
>> dialog do
>> stack do
>> para "MUST BE OVER - THIS IS DIALOG WINDOW"
>> para "What would you like?"
>> button('YES') do
>> $a = "YES"
>> close()
>> end
>> button('NO') do
>> $a = "NO"
>> close()
>> end
>> end
>> end
>> end
>>
>> 2008/10/31 Satoshi Asakawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Hi Louis,
>>>
>>> We don't have any option of confirm method now.
>>> But how about the following code?
>>> Is this what you want to do?
>>>
>>>
>>> Shoes.app do
>>> def button_with_confirm
>>> txt = confirm('ok or cancel?') ? 'OK' : 'cancel'
>>> @b.remove
>>> @b = append{ button(txt){button_with_confirm}}
>>> end
>>>
>>> @b = button 'confirm' do
>>> button_with_confirm
>>> end
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> I might have misunderstood, though... :-P
>>>
>>> Hope it helps,
>>> ashbb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Louis-Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> oh, and do you know if there is a way to order the appearance of app
>>>> windows, I liked the confirm() because it always come on top... in my tests
>>>> windows ordering was unpredictable.
>>>>
>>>> L-P
>>>>
>>>> 2008/10/31 Louis-Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>
>>>>> thanks François,
>>>>> I'll craft something from a dialog() then.
>>>>>
>>>>> L-P
>>>>>
>>>>> 2008/10/31 François Vaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2008/10/31 Louis-Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>>> > Hi all,
>>>>>> > First post on this list :D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, and welcome ! :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > I have been playing with Shoes a bit, now using it to build a
>>>>>> frontend for a
>>>>>> > small backup script
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I have a very small question to start with:
>>>>>> > Is there any option to change the text on the "OK" and "Cancel"
>>>>>> button
>>>>>> > inside of a confirm() dialog?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think there's no way to do that as of now, maybe _why is planning on
>>>>>> adding it in the future
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
