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ChrisWestern12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
March 20, 2015
Question

acl is 'any' Editor dialogue open

  • March 20, 2015
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Hi All,


Wondered if anyone knows an easy way to detect if 'any' dialogue is open, not just the main menu ones.


For example below, this works fine to prevent a message pop-up from coming when using 'message' in a timer loop and you open 'save as' dialogue. However open Ctrl-D / Modify Attributes, and you still get a pop-up with this message looping over the top.


Or if it is easier to show the status of something without using 'message' at all?


 dbActive = windows_disabled();

 if (dbActive != 1){

 message "Timer widget is active $nticks"

}


Many thanks


Chris

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    naglists1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    March 20, 2015
    Take a look at window_list() to detect whether dialogs/windows are open.

    What do you want to do instead of message if a window is open? Just curious
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    On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:47 AM, chris western <->
    wrote:

    > Hi All,
    >
    > Wondered if anyone knows an easy way to detect if 'any' dialogue is open,
    > not just the main menu ones.
    >
    > For example below, this works fine to prevent a message pop-up from coming
    > when using 'message' in a timer loop and you open 'save as' dialogue.
    > However open Ctrl-D / Modify Attributes, and you still get a pop-up with
    > this message looping over the top.
    >
    > Or if it is easier to show the status of something without using 'message'
    > at all?
    >
    > dbActive = windows_disabled();
    >
    > if (dbActive != 1){
    >
    > message "Timer widget is active $nticks"
    >
    > }
    >
    > Many thanks
    >
    > Chris
    >
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    ChrisWestern12-AmethystAuthor
    12-Amethyst
    March 21, 2015

    Thanks Paul, will look into that.



    I just want to use 'message' to show the user that my widget is running in the status bar, but without it creating a pop-up message when some diogues are opened, which looks to be the default behaviour.



    Thanks


    Chris


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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    March 21, 2015
    Hi Chris—

    If you just want to post a message to the status bar that always goes to the status bar, you can use

    window_set(window_id, “message”, “Some status bar text to display”);

    instead of the message command.

    --Clay
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    ChrisWestern12-AmethystAuthor
    12-Amethyst
    March 24, 2015

    Great thanks Clay,


    I was clearly searching the docs for the wrong terms! 😉


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