Mark Schonewille wrote:
Richard,
I use the suspend message to disable the menubar before the answer or
ask dialog shows up. I have modified the ask and answer dialogs to
send a resume message to the topstack when they close and enable the
menubar again when the resume message is received. (No modification
is needed to have the suspend message sent.)
Thanks for the input. For Rev-based sheets it's not been hard to
determine when they're sheeted and adjust my menus accordingly.
The hard part is determining when a system dialog ("ask file" or "answer
file") is a sheet over a Rev window. In such cases the menubar will
need to be updated, and the mouseDown message is sent to the group as
one would expect. But without a way to determine that the system dialog
is up, I can't know whether to adjust the menus for a sheet or for a
fully available document.
For the app I'm working on now I got lucky, since all places that bring
up an "ask file" or "answer file" dialog do so by calling handlers in a
centralized common library. So it was only a few minutes' work to
modify those library handlers to set a flag before the dialog is called,
and then clear that flag once the dialog is dismissed, a la:
global gfwDialogMenuUpdateFlagsA
put the short name of this stack into tStack
put "true" into gfwDialogMenuUpdateFlagsA[tStack]
ask file "Save document as:" as sheet
put it into tFile
put empty into gfwDialogMenuUpdateFlagsA[tStack]
--- do save, etc.
Then in the UpdateMenubar handler triggered by a mouseDown in the menu
group (and now in v2.8.1 also trigger by any attempt to use a keyboard
shortcut -- THANK YOU RUNREV!), I just check that array and update the
menus for sheet mode as needed.
Sure, it's a kludgy workaround, but it got me through the day.
Perhaps down the road the folks at RunRev might consider a new stack
property which tells us when a stack is blocked by a sheet over it.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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