We ran into this problem too on our last project. Rather than spending a lot of time on a workaround we just used Buddy API instead. Might give that a go you get 2 functions free.
HTH Bill >From: atejerina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: <lingo-l> MUI Xtra and MacOs >Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:56:11 +0100 > >Hi all! > >We're having serious problems with Mui Xtra in MacOs with Directos 8.5. > >We want to open a dialog with a text and two buttons, Ok and Cancel. >Well, this is very simple. For this example we used the example >script at Lingo in a Nutshell by Bruce A. Epstein >(http://www.zeusprod.com). The movie script seems like: > >on testAlert > -- Check the answer against the possible user choices > set answer = testMUIalert() > put "User chose button" && answer > case (answer) of: > 1: -- do "YES" option > 2: -- do "NO" option > end case > return answer >end testAlert > >on testMUIalert > -- Create an instance of the MUI Xtra > MUIobject = new (xtra "MUI") > > -- The MUI Alert doesn't beep, so let's do so manually. > beep > > -- Define the attributes of the dialog in a property list > alertPropertiesList = \ >[#buttons: #YesNo, \ >#default: 1, \ >#title: "Quit", \ >#message: "Are you sure you want to quit?", \ >#movable: TRUE, \ >#icon: #caution] > > -- Post the dialog and wait for a user response > answer = Alert(MUIobject, alertPropertiesList) > > -- Dispose of the MUI Object > MUIobject = 0 > > return answer >end testMUIalert > > >We Call the handler from a on StartMovie handler. >When the user clicks on the Yes button or on the No button we got an error: > >Director Player Error >Handler not defined >return answer > >#gMac >ScriptError. Continue > > >We don't understand nothing at all. What are we doing wrong? >It only happens in runMode (MacOs 8.6 and 9.0), and the xtra is well >placed at the xtras folder. > >Please Help! We need to solve this problem > >Thanks in advance!! > >-- > >»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» >Adolfo Tejerina >Departamento de Consultoría y Desarrollo Multimedia >SERIKAT Consultoría e Informática S.A. >C/ Elcano 9, 3º (48008 Bilbao) >Tel.: 94.479.20.30 >Fax: 94.479.20.31 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.serikat.es >»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» >---------------------------------------------------------------- >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L >is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
