Modal dialog not modal... any hints?

[Phil Davis]

Hi Tereza,

So you call YesOrNo() from preOpenStack? If so, I bet that's the 
problem. Hide your mainStack in preOpenStack, and call AskYesOrNo() in 
openStack (after the stack window has been drawn, even if invisible). 
And before calling AskYesOrNo() be sure the modal stack is visible.

This is a guess, but I think I did something like that when I had 
troubles with modal stacks in the past.

Phil Davis



On 1/19/10 2:37 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Jacques Hausser wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi Tereza
>>
>> I checked your handler in a stack "modaling" a substack "AskYesOrNo" with both RR 3.5 and 4, and both seem to work perfectly...
>> Do you have something else than filling fields with the custom properties and setting the dialogData in the scripts of "AskYesOrNo" ?
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>      
> Thanks Jacques!
>
> In preopenstack I move buttons around to suit the platform and default value, and I arrange to return the default value on returnkey. But I do nothing unusual. I've had to revert to using an answer dialog--which works--but I wish my own dialog would work! This is old code that worked for years that I revived for this project (I wanted my own look-and-feel). Convinces  me I really AM losing my grip!
>
>
> t
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>> Le 19 janv. 2010 à 21:22, Tereza Snyder a écrit :
>>
>>      
>>> 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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