On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 , Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Aside from modifying its code, is there a trick to forcing the answer dialog
to appear at the screenLoc?

(snip)

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design

Naturally, this is a reappearing topic. We have had a similar discussion one year ago on this and the improvement list.

I had offered a solution that places the ask and answer dialogs anywhere on the screen or relative to a stack. There are sample stacks at <www.sanke.org/Software/PlaceDialogs.zip>. You determine any location for the stacks by setting a custom property "NewLoc" in the script of the calling handler that triggers the dialog (or not setting the property if you want normal dialog behavior) after having modified the script of the dialogs with only two lines; see below from the information on my website:

"Modified answer- and ask-dialogs that can be placed at any location on the screen or relative to a stack. The sample stack contains English and German information how to proceed with the new custom property "NewLoc" or to modify the dialogs in your own Metacard or Revolution IDE. The modified dialogs are contained both as substacks of the sample stack and in a separate folder (to be added to other stacks)

All that is needed are two script lines added before the end of the preopenstack handlers:

" if the NewLoc of this stack is not empty then set the loc of this stack to the NewLoc of this stack
set the NewLoc of this stack to empty "

The stacks can be used as usual if no NewLoc property is set.

Line 2 of the script makes sure to restore the default behavior of the dialogs the next time they are opened without a specified "NewLoc"."

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke

<http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>

P.S.

Just returned home for 48 hours between two assignments and looking through some 150 mails. I regret that presently I cannot devote much time and effort to Metacard and Revolution, but hopefully that will change in about three weeks.

W.S.


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