Placeable answer and ask dialogs?

[Ray Horsley]

Here's a short script I use to center any window before showing it:

on placeWindow win
   put the screenRect into scrRct
   put (item 3 of scrRct - width of window win)/2 into tmpNum
   put round(tmpNum) into myTopLeft
   put (item 4 of scrRct - height of window win)/2 into tmpNum
   put round(tmpNum) into item 2 of myTopLeft
   set topLeft of window win to myTopLeft
end placeWindow


On Saturday, July 24, 2004, at 04:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> 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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