Modal as in not being able to interact with any of the other controls on the stack? Making a stack-sized invisible button (or lightly tinted and transparent, even) just behind your psudo-dialog would prevent that. For menus and other stacks, you'd have to add additional code - swap the full menus for a smaller set with just what's allowed when the modal is up, hide other stack windows...
Or just make a stack for the dialog with a custom frame and appearance and use it as a normal modal dialog. Back in the Hypercard days, I used a locked, transparent text field with show lines turned on and a linesize of 2. This created a grid of dots over the background that couldn't be clicked through. Ah, the fun of 1-bit graphics... ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepe...@cox.net> wrote: > Please, anyone... > In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs > that appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling my own. Some > Dialogs such as the page setup present some major challenges to doing this, > but with others it's not really much of a problem; however, I would like the > ones that I do create make their appearance as sheets. Can that be done? > Also... I'm not using stacks for these Dialogs. I'm just creating Text > fields with overlying buttons. The problem with this is that I need to > implement a method by which these "Dialogs" can be modal in behavior. I am > doing that by including a mouseUp handler in the stack script that requires > certain activity when a given item is visible. Anyone have a better method > of doing this? Is there something already built in that does this? > > TIA, > Joe Lewis Wilkins > Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI > <www.glsysinc.com> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
