Hu guys, Am 18.11.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Wilhelm Sanke:
> On Fri, Nov 18 , 2011, James Hurley jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> Ken and Malte, >> Thanks for the suggestions. >> Malte--Your suggestion works well. Thanks. As you say it is a bit of a hack. >> Ken--I was referring to the stack that opens in response to the RR "Answer" >> command. Is it possible to set a preopencard handler in that stack? >> But using a modal stack as you suggest, I can roll my own "answer" dialogue. >> This would give me more flexibility. I assume many others take this route. >> Thanks, again, >> Jim Hurley > I might remind you - and especially Ken as the present chief of the Metacard > group - that we have long implemented such a feature for the ask and answer > dialogs in the alternative Metacard IDE, following a proposal from my side > several years ago. > > At the end of the preopenstack handler of the dialog stack (in the card > script) we have added two lines of code: > > " 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" > > In the script calling the dialog you have just first to set the "Newloc": > > "set the newloc of stack "answer dialog" to x,y" > > or use globalloc alternatively. > > The second line of code above "set the NewLoc of this stack to empty" makes > sure the dialog will pop up at the "normal" loc when no Newloc has been set > before calling the dialog. > > This approach is so simple! I have always wondered why the Livecode guys did > not include such a simple solution in the Livecode IDE, too.-- > > These two line of extra code could of course be added to the revanswerdialog > etc., too, but then, when you distribute a non-standalone stack, without > prior including the answer dialog as a substack, it will not work with the > Livecode IDE of another user. On the other side, with an answer dialog > embedded as a substack you might run into troubles, because the Livecode IDE > is very special with double stacks and might throw an error (Did not test > this with the last version). I think this needs to be implemented on the engine side /like ASK and ANSWER itself!) as an optional parameter! > Best regards, > > Wilhelm Sanke Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
