Location of dialog box

[James Hurley]

Ken and Malte,

Thanks for the suggestions. 

Malte--Your suggestion works well. Thanks. As you say it is a bit of a hack. 

Ken--I was referring to the stack that opens in response to the RR "Answer" command. Is it possible to set a preopencard handler in that stack?

But using a modal stack as you suggest, I can roll my own "answer" dialogue. This would give me more flexibility. I assume many others take this route.

Thanks, again,

Jim Hurley


> On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:05 AM, James Hurley wrote:
> 
> >
>  Can one set the location of the popup dialog box? In my application, it obscures the object it is addressing. 
> 
> 
> Jim, the only way to set the locaton of a modal dialog box (that I'm aware of) is changing the location in the preOpenStack of the dialog stack you're opening:
> 
> -- Dialog stack "MyDialog"
> on preOpenCard
>   set the loc of this stack to 100,100
> end preOpenCard
> 
> -- Calling stack
> on mouseUp
>   modal "MyDialog"
> end mouseUp
> 
> The other possibility is to open a dialog box as modeless, which would let you drag it around…
> 
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: 
> kray at sonsothunder.com
> 
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>> Malte Brill wrote: 
>> 
>> Hi Jim,
>> 
>> yes, you can, but it is sort of a hack. You will need to handle the suspendStack message at stack script level:
>> 
>> on suspendStack
>>    if "answer dialog" is among the lines of the openStacks then
>>       set the topLeft of stack "answer dialog" to 0,0
>>    end if
>> end suspendStack