Thanks Jan On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jan Schenkel <janschen...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sun, 6/5/11, Todd Geist <t...@geistinteractive.com> wrote: > > Hello > > > > How does one stop the Save Stack Dialog that pops up in the > > IDE when ever > > you close a stack? In my testing On closeStackRequest > > doesn't fire until > > AFTER the dialog pops up and the user clicks "Save", So > > doing this > > > > *on* closeStackRequest > > > > *save* this stack > > > > *pass* closeStackRequest > > > > *end* closeStackRequest > > > > Doesn't work. > > > > I am using LiveCode 4.6.1 > > > > Thank you > > > > Todd > > > > Hi Todd, > > As you said, the dialog box only pops up in the IDE. > > This is done as follows: > - there is a frontscript aptly named 'revFrontscript' which traps the > 'closeStackRequest' message and immediately executes the > 'revIDEHandleCloseStackRequest' command > - this command is actually part of a backscript named 'revBackscript', > which uses another function 'revSaveCheck' in the same script to determine > if the stack was edited and if so, show the 'Do you want to save changes' > dialog box > -> this in turn may call the 'revSave' or 'revSaveAs' command in the same > backscript, which shows the fancy 'Saving' palette > > So the only way to prevent this dialog from popping up, is inserting your > own backscript to trap this 'revIDEHandleCloseStackRequest' before it gets > to the 'revBackscript' so you can suppress normal handling if it's your > stack. > > Create a button in your project stack, name it something like > 'NoSaveDialogBackscript' and set its script to: > ## > command revIDEHandleCloseStackRequest pTarget > -- closeStackRequest is sent to the current card of the stack > -- so we can derive the name of the stack from pTarget > local tTargetStack > put the owner of pTarget into tTargetStack > if the cThisStackDoesItsOwnSaving of tTargetStack is "true" then > return "pass" > end if > -- if it's not our stack, let the IDE do its thing... > pass revIDEHandleCloseStackRequest > end revIDEHandleCloseStackRequest > ## > > Next, you'll need to make sure this backscript is loaded at startup of your > project stack, so add the following to its stack script: > ## > on openStack > insert the script of button "NoSaveDialogBackscript" of card 1 of me \ > into front > -- always play nice and pass the message > pass openStack > end openStack > on closeStack > remove the script of button "NoSaveDialogBackscript" of card 1 of me \ > from front > -- always play nice and pass the message > pass closeStack > end closeStack > ## > > Finally, set the cThisStackDoesItsOwnSaving custom property of your project > stack to "true" - now save everything, close LiveCode, re-open it and your > stack, and from now on, all should work as you like. > > Caveat: if the RunRev engineers change the name of the command in the next > release of LiveCode, you'll have to update your backscript, but that's the > way the cookie crumbles :-) > > HTH, > > 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) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Todd Geist ------------------------------ geist interactive <http://www.geistinteractive.com> 805-419-9382 _______________________________________________ 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
