Placeable answer and ask dialogs?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/24/04 12:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
> 
>> I wonder whether you list members would be interested to have slightly 
>> modified ask- and answer-dialogs with the new version of the IDE that 
>> allow placing these dialogs anywhere on the screen or relative to the 
>> stack they are launched from.
>> Such a minor change would add flexibility to the dialogs, and it is a 
>> feature some Metacard and Revolution users had asked for in the past.
>>
>> See my stack "Place Dialogs" on <http://www.sanke.org> , English 
>> version, page "Tools and Samples for Development"; the stack contains 
>> examples and information.
>>
>> 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".
> 
> 
> Thank you for your willingness to contribute.  Scott Rossi has already 
> offered to work on the Ask and Answer dialogs -- maybe the two of you 
> could work out those enhancements?
> 
> Doesn't Rev provide support for specifying the loc of those dialogs?  If 
> so, can we use their syntax?
> 

I have no objection to this change. But I am not clear why we need it; 
doesn't this do the same thing:

  set the loc of stack "answer dialog" to myloc

It is only a single line, which is the same amount of space it would 
take to set a stack property. Am I missing something?

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