[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-15 Thread Berke
Doesn't this work? if (IsDefined(window.showModalDialog)) { //Handles IE6 & 7 retVal= window.showModalDialog(sPage,argsArr, sFeatures); } else { //Handles Firefox retVal=window.open(sPage,sFeatures+"modal=yes"); } Then in the window you can set:

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-15 Thread Berke
Sorry if this is a double post but the first time it gave me an error, This should work for you and creates a real Modal now if your looking for one of the fancier modals that are not actually windows use the callbacks like they described. if (IsDefined(window.showModalDialog)) {

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-15 Thread Wagner
thank you all for the answers... basically I will have to work with the callbacks! ;-) On Nov 15, 3:31 pm, Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey friends... of course when I say about stop the flow of code, I > mean to stop the flow of code that called the window, the flow would > be passed to t

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-15 Thread Wagner
Hey friends... of course when I say about stop the flow of code, I mean to stop the flow of code that called the window, the flow would be passed to the window being drawn, the internal events of window, etc, etc, when I close the window, the flow should go back to the point that called the modal

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-14 Thread Brice Burgess
Wagner, Javascript's flow is single threaded, and a delay in execution (I/O starvation) will halt the entire script including timeouts and intervals. As such, timeouts and intervals are "kind of asynchronous", in that the script hypervisor is polling for these each "tick", and will direct progr

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-14 Thread Shawn Grover
This is a coding approach issue, rather than a modal window issue. To me at least. When I needed behavior like this, I wrote my code in such a way that a function was called that set up the environment and then opened the modal window. Now that the modal window is open, I know that nothing

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-14 Thread Richard D. Worth
What I mean to say is, a modal isn't about stopping flow of code. It's about restricting interaction to a certain set of elements, until the interaction is complete. So it allows interaction with elements in that modal (requiring code flow - remember javascript is single-threaded), preventing inter

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-14 Thread Eric Martin
I guess it depends on what you mean by "flow of code must STOP". On Nov 14, 12:11 pm, Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to make a window like jqModal, etc, etc,  BUT WITH A > REAL MODAL way of work? > > I mean the flow of code must STOP until the window be closed! Does > it e

[jQuery] Re: A "real" modal window... is it possible?

2008-11-14 Thread Richard D. Worth
If the flow of code stopped, there would be no way to close the window. - Richard On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to make a window like jqModal, etc, etc, BUT WITH A > REAL MODAL way of work? > > I mean the flow of code must STOP until t