Tags in dialog boxes and the command: resetAll

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Sat Mar 21 11:47:04 EDT 2009


And it's sooooo damn easy to make your own dialogs...
Stephen Barncard
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San Francisco
http://barncard.com


2009/3/21 Jim Bufalini <jim at visitrieve.com>

> Hi Scott,
>
> > I have to say this again, it drives me flippin nuts that I cannot use
> > the
> > answer dialog to view raw tagged code any more.  Any time a string with
> > tags
> > is answered, the dialog automatically tries to render them.  What if
> > one
> > doesn't want this?  What if one wants to debug some lines of HTML or
> > XML?
> > The code has to be dumped into a field or similar.
> >
> > There should be some means to "answer" raw tagged code without
> > rendering.
>
> I have to say I've always considered this a great "feature," which was
> added
> in I forget what version of Rev, but not too long ago (my sense of time can
> be warped sometimes ;-).
>
> As to "raw," I have a stack called Dialog, which I add as a substack to
> anywhere I need this or custom dialog. It has a Prompt field and OK,
> Cancel,
> buttons, etc. So for raw, I put into the field Prompt and go stack Dialog.
> For formatted, I put into the HTMLtext of field Prompt. Probably not the
> most elegant solution, but it works.
>
> This said, I agree, it wouldn't hurt to have a "raw" flag added to
> answer/ask. But, you know, no matter what RunRev adds to answer/ask,
> someone
> will always need "more" or "different." So why not roll your own? ;-)
>
> Aloha from Hawaii,
>
> Jim Bufalini
>
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