Modal dialog not modal... any hints?

[Jerry Daniels]

Tereza,

modal stack "AskYesOrNo"

Don't you have to put the word "stack" in there?

Best,

Jerry Daniels

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On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote:

> I have this handler in a script:
>
>
> function YesOrNo pQuestion, pDefaultAnswer
>   set the Question of stack "AskYesOrNo"  to pQuestion
>   set the DefaultAnswer of stack "AskYesOrNo" to pDefaultAnswer
>   modal "AskYesOrNo"	
>   return the dialogData
> end YesOrNo
>
> The stack "AskYesOrNo" is intended to do what you'd expect: it  
> displays the question with "yes" or "no" and returns "yes" or "no"  
> in the dialog data. However, when I call this handler, it returns  
> empty before it even displays the dialog. If I insert a "put"  
> statement AFTER the "modal" statement, the putted text is visible in  
> the message box while the dialog is on the screen, and statements in  
> the caller of the YesOrNo function are executed before I exit the  
> dialog.
>
> In other words, "modal" seems broken. Before I start making test  
> stacks, has anyone encountered this before? Could there be a bug in  
> the dialog scripts that causes the dialog to fail silently?
>
> (Revolution 3.5, MacOS 10.6.2)
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> Tereza Snyder
> Califex Software, Inc.
> <www.califexsoftware.com>
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