Modal dialog not modal... any hints?

[Tereza Snyder]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote:

> Tereza,
> 
> modal stack "AskYesOrNo"
> 
> Don't you have to put the word "stack" in there?

The (mis)behavior is the same whether it's "modal stack"  or just "modal"


> 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
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