I would go for this approach as well - for the simple reason that it avoids 'traversalOn' issues where the user could still 'tab' to a control and then press the 'space' or 'return' key to activate a button. Plus, disabled controls look slightly different, and combined with an opaque 'overlay' graphic that has a blendLevel of 80 or so, you can even set its background colour to convey a difference between regular (white), warning (orange) and error (red) situations and questions. Two years ago, I used this approach in a Java Swing application, and people appreciated it a lot - even if it was Mac-like UI element seeping into a Windows/Unix environment.
Just my 2 cents, Jan Schenkel. ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) --- On Mon, 1/3/11, Marty Knapp <martykn...@comcast.net> wrote: > What about placing everything that > will be behind your dialog into a group, then disable the > group when showing the dialog and enabling it when it > closes? > > Marty Knapp > > 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
