Thanks, Jacque and Mark.
I suspected this was the case. Maybe someday, Rev could give us the
choice of a modal or non-modal answer dialog.
In the meantime, I'll just write a standard answer command with extra
lines that include an "exit to top" button in the dialog box, and
otherwise prefabricate the thing a little. I'll stow it somewhere for
easy access when I want to do some quick and dirty debugging.
Then, when I want to do some quick and dirty debugging, I won't be
able to remember where I put it. But life will go on. :-)
Thanks,
Tim
Mark Wieder wrote:
Timothy-
Monday, August 8, 2005, 10:12:01 AM, you wrote:
My issue is much simpler. If an answer dialog is waiting on the
screen, command-period, would, in a perfect world, exit to top. As
far as I can tell, no keyboard entry will make that happen.
I've lost the original context for this thread, so I may not know
what's going on here, but that's never stopped me before...
Answer dialogs are modal. Typically a modal dialog means that all
other action within an application is blocked until the dialog is
dismissed. This is done by pressing one of the buttons on the modal
dialog ("OK", "Cancel", etc) or by typing the keyboard equivalent of
thos buttons (return, escape, etc). The addition of command-period
would be an interesting addition to the operating system as a
substitute for the escape key, but that would have to be done at the
OS level rather than the application level. Otherwise you're talking
about redefining what a "modal" dialog means, especially if you want
to close the modal dialog and force an exit-to-top.
Right. The reason it worked in HyperCard and can't work in
Revolution, if I remember right, is because HyperCard didn't use
system windows for modal dialogs; it put up its own. The so-called
"modal" dialog in HyperCard was actually an application window that
got treated in a special way and was therefore immune to OS
behaviors.
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HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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