use-revolution Digest, Vol 76, Issue 55

Peter Haworth pete at mollysrevenge.com
Wed Jan 27 13:04:55 EST 2010


I've been caught with this too so thanks for the tip. I decided to  
ALWAYS have a close button on modals.  Is there some reason why that's  
not a good idea?

Pete Haworth








On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:00 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:46:04 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> Subject: Re: how to close a modal stack in IDE?
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Message-ID: <4B607BDC.5040501 at hyperactivesw.com>
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> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Edward D Lavieri Jr wrote:
>>> When you have stack open in modal mode, you can press Ctrl-Cmd- 
>>> Shift-
>>> Click to get a pop-up menu for the stack. On that pop-up menu is the
>>> option "Stack Mode." From there, the mode can be changed to:
>>> - Toplevel
>>> - Modeless
>>> - Palette
>>> - Modal
>>
>> Ah, it's an IDE thing.  Thanks.  I use my own IDE so that feature's  
>> not
>> available. :)
>
> I can't tell you how many times this little trick has saved me.  
> Without
> it, there is no way to get out of a modal without force-quitting.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com




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