how to set font of ask/answer dialogues

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Sun May 30 00:51:07 EDT 2004


Thanks Wilhelm for this. I'm looking forward to DL'ing your ask/answer 
stacks :-)

-Chipp

Wilhelm Sanke wrote:

> For my own purposes I have modified the Rev answer and ask dialogs - see 
> "Transparent Dialogs" in "user contributions" on the RunRev site - to be 
> able
> 
> - to set textfont and textsize (as mentioned for Metacard above)
> - to reduce the enormous widths of the Rev dialogs, that sometimes 
> extend across the whole screen and beyond
> - to set the dialogs to any loc on the screen with a custom property 
> "NewLoc"
> 
> You can comment or delete the special "snapshot routine" in my scripts 
> that creates a pseudo-transparency for the dialogs.
> 
> To override the proper Rev dialogs make my dialogs substacks of your 
> stack in question.
> 
> One more recommendation if you should take a look at my stacks: Put my 
> answer and ask dialog into a subfolder and open them from there before 
> setting them as substacks; otherwise you might end up with the original 
> Rev answer dialog as a substack.
> 
> Hope this helps, too.
> 
> Wilhelm Sanke



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