Marty, Your concept has a lot of potential if it works fast enough, which normally shouldn't be a problem. Should be much better than polling other activities. Not sure how it might impact other stack activity such as arrow and command keys.
Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI <www.glsysinc.com> On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Marty Knapp wrote: > What about placing everything that will be behind your dialog into a group, > then disable the group when showing the dialog and enabling it when it closes? > > Marty Knapp >> Please, anyone... >> In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs >> that appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling my own. Some >> Dialogs such as the page setup present some major challenges to doing this, >> but with others it's not really much of a problem; however, I would like the >> ones that I do create make their appearance as sheets. Can that be done? >> Also... I'm not using stacks for these Dialogs. I'm just creating Text >> fields with overlying buttons. The problem with this is that I need to >> implement a method by which these "Dialogs" can be modal in behavior. I am >> doing that by including a mouseUp handler in the stack script that requires >> certain activity when a given item is visible. Anyone have a better method >> of doing this? Is there something already built in that does this? >> >> TIA, >> Joe Lewis Wilkins >> Architect& Director of Product Development for GSI >> <www.glsysinc.com> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
