Placeable answer and ask dialogs?

[Richard Gaskin]

Chipp Walters wrote:
 > Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >
 >> Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
 >>> 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 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.

Agreed.  Done for the next release (it was only two lines).

I'll hold off on the placement until the spec is ironed out on the 
improve-rev list, to which I just posted a message about it.

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