"Badge" in answer modal?

[Jim Hurley]

Jan,

I thought I would take you up on your challenge to be adventurous and try to alter the loc of the answer dialog box by changing the script of the box.

By script, I got the script of card 1 of stack "dialog box", found the line in the PreopenStack handler where the loc is set, i.e.:

    set the loc of this stack to the screenloc

I then added 200 to the second item of the screenloc, altered that line in the script, and reset the script of the box.

As a check, I then got the script of the box and I could see that the new loc had been applied,

I then called answer again but it continued to show in at the original screenLoc. The new script didn't seem to take.

Is there a way to change the loc of the answer dialog box? There are times when it is just very inconvenient.

I seem to recall a discussion of this topic some time ago.

Jim Hurley


On Nov 21, 2012, at  10:00 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> On 11/21/2012 05:56 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
>> The badging is implemented specifically to help Mac developers comply with the OS X Human Interface Guidelines.
>> See: <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Intro/Intro.html>
>> 
>> There's no precedent for this badging on Windows or Linux, and while you may personally find this a desirable feature accross all platforms, the RunRev team wants to help us create a native user experience and tries to stop us from creating user interfaces which look and feel alien to native users.
>> 
>> That said, if you feel adventurous, you can edit the script of card 1 of stack "Answer dialog" and remove the platform check for the code pertaining to gRevSmallAppIcon ;-)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jan Schenkel.
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