Answer dialog enhancement...

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Tue Mar 31 18:10:30 EDT 2020


The answer dialog is simply a stack in and of itself if I am not mistaken. I’m wondering if you couldn’t find that stack and clone it for your own purposes…

Bob S


On Mar 31, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:

Here is another attempt to not reinvent the wheel:

We, like a lot of people, use:

answer [/iconType/]/prompt/[with/button1/[or/buttons/]] [titled/windowTitle/] [as sheet]

And we use the various iconTypes to who error, warning, or informational icons. We have a lot of these that are caution dialogs (are you sure that... sort of thing). We'd like to move to the (now) common UI convention of having a "Do not show this again." check box in the dialog combined with a set of saved preferences for whether the used indicated it should not be shown again. We already have a preferences system in place.

I am seeking if someone has already written code to ADD a "Do not ask this again." check box to the existing Answer Dialog, so you could do something like:

DontShowAgain "on"
answer warning "Are you sure you want to quit before saving?" with "Save" or "Quit" titled "Are You Sure?"
put it into tResponse
put line x of the dalogData into tDontShowAgain
DontShowAgain "off"

where a handler DontShowAgain creates and positions a check box in the existing Answer Dialog and adds a script to put the result in the dialogData (or some means to check it afterwards)

Alternatively, if no one has glued this onto the existing Answer Dialog has anyone created a custom Answer Dialog with a Do Not Show Again check box that has the same general capabilities (icon type by platform (Win/OSX), html text prompts, named buttons, and windowTitle as parameters)



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