"Badge" in answer modal?

[Jim Hurley]

Hi Jan.

Thanks. Perfect. I can't imagine what all goes on between "on  preOpenStack" and "end PreOpenStack"

But your suggestion to insert the reset at the end of that handler work just fine.

Here is a button script to test the strategy:

CAUTION; This meddles with answer dialog script. But restores it at the end.

on mouseUp --Change the location of the answer dialog box
   answer "This is the default position of the answer box."

   put the script of card 1 of stack "answer dialog" into tScript
   put lineoffset("end preOpenStack", tScript)  into tLineNo

   --Define the new script line.
   put "Set the loc of this stack to "& "200,400" into tNewScriptLine

   --Alter the script
   put tNewScriptLine & cr & "end preOpenStack" into line tLineNo of tScript
   set the script of card 1 of stack "answer dialog"  to tScript

   --Test of new loc.
   answer "Have I moved?"

   --Now restore the deafulat script if you like
   put "end preOpenStack" into line tLineNo of tScript
   set the script of card 1 of stack "answer dialog" to tScript
-- Or you might just change the new script line to "set the loc of this stack to the screenLoc" 
end mouseUp

Jim Hurley


On Nov 22, 2012, at  10:00 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:58:30 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: "Badge" in answer modal?
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> Hi Jim,
> 
> Try and add your logic to the very end of the 'preOpenStack' handler.
> That handler fiddles with the width and top of the stack so many times that you might as well let it do its thing and then move it yourself at the very end.
> I tried putting the following line in and it seemed to work on my Mac:
> ##
> set the left of this stack to 100
> ##
> 
> Jan Schenkel.