Re: Ask and Answer Clones/How to invoke

[Kevin Miller]

On 28/3/01 6:19 am, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How to I make sure the "Input" dialog stack opens and not the native/on
 board "Ask" dialog opens? And will it pass the data to the variable it,
 regardless of the stack name?

This isn't supported - you would need to write a custom command or function
that opens the dialog, and rewrite the dialog slightly to read in data from
that command / function (e.g. it could set a custom property on the stack).

Regards,

Kevin

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Ask and Answer Clones/How to invoke

[Sivakatirswami]

I want to follow the advice given in the reference to clone the Ask and
Answer Dialogs to make them more context sensitive and, more importantly,
because accessing the properties of the ask and Answer dialogs, if they have
been added as resources and keep the same names as the "home" ask and answer
dialogs, get very "snakey"  MC's "Ask" stack and the substack of my own
mainstack also named "ask" are twins and the engine gets mixed up about who
he is supposed to be talking to when it comes to assigning colors and
default text size etc. Seems cleaner just to do as the reference suggests.

So, question is this:

Let's say I clone the "ask" dialog stack and rename it

stack "Input"

Now, in a script, such as

on mouseUp
   Ask "Enter a Label or ID # this tape."
end mouseUp

How to I make sure the "Input" dialog stack opens and not the native/on
board "Ask" dialog opens? And will it pass the data to the variable it,
regardless of the stack name?

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