Window manager plugin?

[Scott Rossi]

Ooo.  I smell a t-shirt to be made:

"Your way is clean, but I need a hack."

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 8/23/14 11:50 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

>I believe you. I needed it for The Big Project, which already has a
>suspendStack handler, and I was trying to integrate your part. There's a
>backscript too with a few thousand lines of code that traps most system
>messages. I never bothered to figure out why it didn't work, I just
>plugged in my custom handler because it doesn't rely on any system
>messages.
>
>Your way is cleaner but I needed a hack.
>
>On 8/23/2014, 1:17 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>> If you haven't already, try the script in an empty stack -- should work
>>as
>> expected.  I doubt my systems have any special mojo going on (usually I
>> get curses, plagues, and the occasional hex).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/23/14 11:06 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/23/2014, 12:07 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>>> I should have clarified that I listed two scripts: one for answer, one
>>>> for
>>>> ask.  But the script is working here for all versions of LC, Mac and
>>>> Win,
>>>> including v7.  Not sure what to tell you.  Did you try the script in a
>>>> new, empty stack?
>>>>
>>>> Something like this would be better to be all-inclusive:
>>>>
>>>> on suspendStack
>>>>      put the openStacks into theList
>>>>      if "answer dialog" is among the lines of theList then set the
>>>>loc of
>>>> stack "answer dialog" to loc of me
>>>>      if "ask dialog" is among the lines of theList then set the loc of
>>>> stack
>>>> "ask dialog" to loc of me
>>>> end suspendStack
>>>
>>> I needed this once, and tried this suggestion but I couldn't get it to
>>> work either. I'm not sure why. I settled on this hack:
>>>
>>> on answerWithLoc pString,pBtn1,pBtn2
>>>    set the vis of stack "answer dialog" to false
>>>    answer pString with pBtn1 and pBtn2
>>>    set the loc of stack "answer dialog" to the loc of this stack
>>>    set the vis of stack "answer dialog" to true
>>> end answerWithLoc
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>
>>>