command-period - On third thought...

[Timothy Miller]

Thanks, Jacque and Mark.

I suspected this was the case. Maybe someday, Rev could give us the 
choice of a modal or non-modal answer dialog.

In the meantime, I'll just write a standard answer command with extra 
lines that include an "exit to top" button in the dialog box, and 
otherwise prefabricate the thing a little. I'll stow it somewhere for 
easy access when I want to do some quick and dirty debugging.

Then, when I want to do some quick and dirty debugging, I won't be 
able to remember where I put it. But life will go on.   :-)

Thanks,


Tim

>Mark Wieder wrote:
>>Timothy-
>>
>>Monday, August 8, 2005, 10:12:01 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>>My issue is much simpler. If an answer dialog is waiting on the
>>>screen, command-period, would, in a perfect world, exit to top. As 
>>>far as I can tell, no keyboard entry will make that happen.
>>
>>
>>I've lost the original context for this thread, so I may not know
>>what's going on here, but that's never stopped me before...
>>
>>Answer dialogs are modal. Typically a modal dialog means that all
>>other action within an application is blocked until the dialog is
>>dismissed. This is done by pressing one of the buttons on the modal
>>dialog ("OK", "Cancel", etc) or by typing the keyboard equivalent of
>>thos buttons (return, escape, etc). The addition of command-period
>>would be an interesting addition to the operating system as a
>>substitute for the escape key, but that would have to be done at the
>>OS level rather than the application level. Otherwise you're talking
>>about redefining what a "modal" dialog means, especially if you want
>>to close the modal dialog and force an exit-to-top.
>>
>
>Right. The reason it worked in HyperCard and can't work in 
>Revolution, if I remember right, is because HyperCard didn't use 
>system windows for modal dialogs; it put up its own. The so-called 
>"modal" dialog in HyperCard was actually an application window that 
>got treated in a special way and was therefore immune to OS 
>behaviors.
>
>--
>Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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