Advice as to how to create a dialog

[Michael Doub]

This might also allow me to position control actually near the original data entry field rather than in the center of the screen.

does having a big transparent background have an side effects?

-= Mike


On Jul 27, 2014, at 2:28 PM, stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Michael Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> How are other folks working with dialogs?
>> 
> 
> I sometimes avoid the hassles of another stack, modal limitations, etc. by
> using a GROUP with all the entry and controls.
> it can have a background that can be dimmed or invisible that obfuscates
> the clicking outside the 'fake dialog' and fills the page.
> You'll have to write code that handles hide and show and dismissal, etc but
> it's not that hard to make really good looking dialogs that way.
> 
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