"Badge" in answer modal?

[Robert Sneidar]

Only works for Mac. The original discussion was about how to get Windows and Linux dialogs to act like the Mac ones. Sheet is Mac specific. 

Bob


On Nov 21, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:

> How about appending "as sheet" after the call to the Answer Dialog, putting it up under the Title Bar?
> 
> Joe Wilkins
> 
> On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
> 
>> Jan,
>> 
>> I thought I would take you up on your challenge to be adventurous and try to alter the loc of the answer dialog box by changing the script of the box.
>> 
>> By script, I got the script of card 1 of stack "dialog box", found the line in the PreopenStack handler where the loc is set, i.e.:
>> 
>>   set the loc of this stack to the screenloc
>> 
>> I then added 200 to the second item of the screenloc, altered that line in the script, and reset the script of the box.
>> 
>> As a check, I then got the script of the box and I could see that the new loc had been applied,
>> 
>> I then called answer again but it continued to show in at the original screenLoc. The new script didn't seem to take.
>> 
>> Is there a way to change the loc of the answer dialog box? There are times when it is just very inconvenient.
>> 
>> I seem to recall a discussion of this topic some time ago.
>> 
>> Jim Hurley
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 21, 2012, at  10:00 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:55:18 +0200
>>> From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
>>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>>> Subject: Re: "Badge" in answer modal?
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>>> On 11/21/2012 05:56 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
>>>> The badging is implemented specifically to help Mac developers comply with the OS X Human Interface Guidelines.
>>>> See: <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Intro/Intro.html>
>>>> 
>>>> There's no precedent for this badging on Windows or Linux, and while you may personally find this a desirable feature accross all platforms, the RunRev team wants to help us create a native user experience and tries to stop us from creating user interfaces which look and feel alien to native users.
>>>> 
>>>> That said, if you feel adventurous, you can edit the script of card 1 of stack "Answer dialog" and remove the platform check for the code pertaining to gRevSmallAppIcon ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Jan Schenkel.
>>> 
>> 
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