How do I mimic dialog boxes?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Joe,

I just tried "simple" ask and answer calls from the message box. They  
were acceptably fast; so I must conclude that such things as using  
your own Icon and complex parameters must be the source of the  
apparent slowness you are seeing. I wouldn't give up on the standard  
calls yet. The Ask and Answer Dialogs are too intrinsic to not be  
optimized. Maybe we get too elaborate with them sometimes. I recall  
having used some extremely convoluted Ask and Answer Dialogs in my HC  
days. They were as fast as you could want.

Instead of using stacks for them, perhaps we can use hidden images  
with buttons and text fields that get shown and then hidden. This  
should be very fast I would think. Just a matter of creating them in  
the background for a stack. This would also allow for some fairly  
unusual/fancy Dialog appearances. Just a thought. Maybe hair-brained?

Joe Wilkins

On May 20, 2007, at 9:22 AM, LunchnMeets at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Since “Ask” and “Answer” dialog boxes come up too slow how can I mimic
> those boxes without using those commands? I’m using Mac OSX if it  
> matters.
>
> Joe in Orlando Florida
>
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