setting pointer location

[Alan Gayne]

Happy New Year David,


On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 10:27  PM, David Vaughan wrote:

>  In normal use there is no significant difference between having it 
> modal or modeless but the latter is a slight advantage to me where the 
> user can pause to adjust something else, affecting a calculated field, 
> before completing the dialog fields.
>

...and I assume that pause would be the one that "refreshes" (ouch!  
I'm really show my age with that one!)

Seriously though, that's an interesting variation on my tried and true 
technique.  I've never used a modeless dialog so I'm not sure, but 
isn't there a "danger" of the dialog getting "lost" behind the main 
window by the inexperienced user (Hey!  Where'd that thing go?).

If you want the user to be able to "adjust" one or more previously 
filled field, you could easily create your own "ask" dialog which 
includes a pair of browser style navigation ("Prev", "Next") buttons 
which could be used to backtrack modal dialogs.  One could also include 
an "exit" button which would allow the user to exit the dialog sequence 
while giving the user a warning dialog that the required data entry 
sequence was not completed and, "would you care to try again?"  
(Actually, I've never before thought about such a custom "ask" dialog, 
but now having done so, it seems pretty cool - so it's now on my 
to-do-list)

Being able to easily create such custom dialogs is one of the things I 
REALLY like about RunRev.

Regards,
Alan