Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
There is no way to add to the present ask and answer dialogs. But there's nothing to prevent you from making your own! See the dialogdata in the documentation for methods to send data back and forth between your custom dialog window and your application. You get and set the dialogdata (a global

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bob Sneidar wrote: There is no way to add to the present ask and answer dialogs. But there's nothing to prevent you from making your own! Yup. But Paul wanted to know about open/save file dialogs. Unfortunately there's no way to modify those. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Silly me. Same principle applies though. It's one of the reasons I like hypercoding so much. You can fairly easily make things look pretty much like anything you want. I wrote a Monopoly stack once in my Hypercard heyday. There was no color at the time though, so I gave it up. Bob On May

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
One *could* make a great ask/answer file dialog from scratch, complete with the 'correct' icons that would be very close to the standard. Do a search of Rev archives for 'Directory Walker' . There are many, many threads about this. *You could use a datagrid and lay it out any way you want.* On

Re: Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-18 Thread stephen barncard
In 4.0 the dialogdata property is a full fledged data object and can be multi-dimensional, easily converted back and forth into an array. This simplifies creating complex dialog boxes with many parameters. Before 4.0, complex systems needed to be created to get multiple data blocks, some with

Adding to standard dialogs

2010-05-17 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
Is there any way to modify the standard file open/save dialogs, to add things like checkboxes? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com