"Badge" in answer modal?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

How about appending "as sheet" after the call to the Answer Dialog, putting it up under the Title Bar?

Joe Wilkins

On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> 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:
> 
>> 
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:55:18 +0200
>> From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> Subject: Re: "Badge" in answer modal?
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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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