Dialog Box in the Center of the Screen

[Roger Guay]

This is very cool!  I'm sorry I missed the earlier discussion.  
Amazingly, I did a search of the archive and didn't find anything 
either.  I must have used the wrong search words??  Anyway, thanks for 
the solution . . . it works just fine!  BTW, I also vote for a 
scriptable option.

Cheers, Roger

> Roger said:
> "I have a narrow (180 pixels) "Palette" style stack on the extreme left
> edge of the screen from which I call up an "answer" dialog box.  On the
> Mac (OS X) this dialog box is centered on the screen, but in the
> Windows environment this dialog box is centered on the "Palette" stack
> and is therefore partially offscreen.  How can I make this dialog box
> appear in the center of the screen on the Windows platform?"
> ---
> What I do is set the the ask & answer palettes to always open at the
> center of the screen, by having them open at the screenLoc.
>
> To do this, I use Revolution's "View" Menu to "Show the Revolution UI
> Elements in the List", and then use the "Tools" menu to "Show the
> Application Browser" .  Select the "Ask dialog" and right-click on it
> and show it's script.  In the preOpenCard handler, add the line "set
> the loc of me to the screenLoc", and apply the change..  Do the same
> with the "Answer dialog".  Then close Revolution and when it asks if
> you ant to save the changes to stack "Ask Dialog", select "Save".  Do
> the same with the Answer dialog.
>
> Now when dialogs open they will open in the center of the screen.
> I's a keeper, and when you make a astand alone with your version o
> fRev., the script will still apply to these dialogs
>
> I thought we had a bug to get the runRev crew to give us the option
> to add ask  "at 200,200", or where ever, but since I've not gotten
> involved in the bugzilla game, am not sure of its status at this
> point.
>
> hope it helps.  this was talked about 6 months or so ago, when I ran
> into the same problem, and other more involved, and more elegant
> solutions offered.
>
> Chris
> -- 
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