Placeable answer and ask dialogs?

[Chipp Walters]

Scott and Wilhelm,

As long as you're adding features...

I like Wilhelm's idea and think it's good for a couple of reasons:

1) It doesn't change the existing vernacular...IOW, old scripts will 
work with it just fine

2) It works great with stacks on the 'edge' of the screen where the 
dialog box comes up 'half off.'

I would also like to propose the following 'compatible' behavior. I 
would like the answer dialog box to be able to display htmlText as well. 
In RR, this is the default behavior. So, if there is htmlText 
(identified by a <p></p> around the line) it will 'set the htmlText 
prop' instead of 'putting into'. I find I use this quite a lot to help 
format my dialogs, especially to add color to  specific words in them.

best,

Chipp

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?
>