On Sat, 29 May 2004 "kweto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

For my Japanese-speaking users, how do I set the fonts of a stack's
ask/answer dialogues? In MC, I seem to recall that these dialogue windows
were actually MC stacks, and therefore modifiable. But I can't find
something similar to those stacks in RunRev.

Thank you.
--
Nicolas Cueto
niconiko language school


Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> answered:

It is exactly the same as in MC...

Open the "Application Browser" (select "Rev UI Elements in lists" in
the "View" Menu),
and find these substacks in the "home" stack, ready to be modified...

But i am not sure if there are Rev front- or backscripts that might
override the new settings...


This time there are no such front- or backscripts that interfere, but there are 23 lines in the card script of the "answer dialog" that refer either to textfont or textsize.

With the Metacard answer dialog - which you can use in Revolution, too - this was simple, you just put two extra lines into your script before using the "answer" command, like this

"set the texfont of stack "answer dialog" to verdana
set the textsize of stack "answer dialog" to 16
answer "whatever" with "this" or "that" ".-

And Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> answered:

However, it might be easier to pass htmlText to your
ask/answer command ; try this :
--
  anwer the htmltext of field "MyField"
--
You'll have to learn how to tinker the htmlText to get
it right ; one thing is that you'll have to pass the
font for each paragraph of text.


The problem with this approach is that you have first to put a text in your field "MyField" and set it to htmltext;
if you tinkered that correctly the question or initial statement in the answer dialog will indeed show the new html properties, but not the *buttons* of the answer dialog ("OK" etc.).-


For my own purposes I have modified the Rev answer and ask dialogs - see "Transparent Dialogs" in "user contributions" on the RunRev site - to be able

- to set textfont and textsize (as mentioned for Metacard above)
- to reduce the enormous widths of the Rev dialogs, that sometimes extend across the whole screen and beyond
- to set the dialogs to any loc on the screen with a custom property "NewLoc"


You can comment or delete the special "snapshot routine" in my scripts that creates a pseudo-transparency for the dialogs.

To override the proper Rev dialogs make my dialogs substacks of your stack in question.

One more recommendation if you should take a look at my stacks: Put my answer and ask dialog into a subfolder and open them from there before setting them as substacks; otherwise you might end up with the original Rev answer dialog as a substack.

Hope this helps, too.

Wilhelm Sanke


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