How to dismiss a modal dialog (was: Re: Ask & Answer)

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Joe,

Le 27 mai 07 à 17:01, LunchnMeets at aol.com a écrit :

> OK, so I’ve created a modal stack that ignores everything else.  
> That’s good.
> Now how do I transfer data from that modal stack to the continuing  
> script
> that opened the modal stack? Maybe dialogData has something to do  
> with that but I
> don’t understand that command.

DialogData is not a command but a property that can be considered as  
a global property since you may change its contents from any script.
For instance:

put "OK" into tBtn1
put "Cancel" into tBtn2
put "Are we going to the cellar?" into tPrompt
set the dialogData to tBtn1 & cr & tBtn2 & cr & tPrompt
modal stack "MyAsnwer" -- this will trigger preOpenStack in MyAnwser:  
see below
if the dialogData then doAction -- see btn scripts below that have  
changed the contents of the dialogData in the meantime :-)
etc.

on preOpenStack
   set the label of btn "OK" to line 1 of the dialogData
   set the label of btn "Cancel" to line 2 of the dialogData
   put line 3 of the dialogData into fld "Prompt"
   -- your dialog is now customized
   etc.

on mouseUp -- btn "Cancel"
   set the dialogData to false
   close this stack
end mouseUp

on mouseUp -- btn "OK"
   set the dialogData to true
   close this stack
end mouseUp

Hope this helps
Best regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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