Ooo. I smell a t-shirt to be made: "Your way is clean, but I need a hack."
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/23/14 11:50 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: >I believe you. I needed it for The Big Project, which already has a >suspendStack handler, and I was trying to integrate your part. There's a >backscript too with a few thousand lines of code that traps most system >messages. I never bothered to figure out why it didn't work, I just >plugged in my custom handler because it doesn't rely on any system >messages. > >Your way is cleaner but I needed a hack. > >On 8/23/2014, 1:17 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> If you haven't already, try the script in an empty stack -- should work >>as >> expected. I doubt my systems have any special mojo going on (usually I >> get curses, plagues, and the occasional hex). >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design >> >> >> >> >> On 8/23/14 11:06 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: >> >>> On 8/23/2014, 12:07 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >>>> I should have clarified that I listed two scripts: one for answer, one >>>> for >>>> ask. But the script is working here for all versions of LC, Mac and >>>> Win, >>>> including v7. Not sure what to tell you. Did you try the script in a >>>> new, empty stack? >>>> >>>> Something like this would be better to be all-inclusive: >>>> >>>> on suspendStack >>>> put the openStacks into theList >>>> if "answer dialog" is among the lines of theList then set the >>>>loc of >>>> stack "answer dialog" to loc of me >>>> if "ask dialog" is among the lines of theList then set the loc of >>>> stack >>>> "ask dialog" to loc of me >>>> end suspendStack >>> >>> I needed this once, and tried this suggestion but I couldn't get it to >>> work either. I'm not sure why. I settled on this hack: >>> >>> on answerWithLoc pString,pBtn1,pBtn2 >>> set the vis of stack "answer dialog" to false >>> answer pString with pBtn1 and pBtn2 >>> set the loc of stack "answer dialog" to the loc of this stack >>> set the vis of stack "answer dialog" to true >>> end answerWithLoc >>> >>> -- >>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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
