Re: CreateDialog Pecularity
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- Subject: [mg87356] Re: CreateDialog Pecularity
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 05:39:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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David Park wrote: > I often like to use CreateDialog as an easy way to put material up in a > window even through there is no active 'dialog'. However there is a strange > feature in which if one makes the window floating then it also appears to > become Modal, even if Modal is set to False. > > CreateDialog[ > "Does Modal depend on the WindowFloating option?\nThis has \ > WindowFloating \[Rule] False\nTry to evaluate another cell in the \ > notebook", > WindowFrame -> "Normal", > WindowElements -> {"MagnificationPopUp", "HorizontalScrollBar", > "VerticalScrollBar"}, > WindowFrameElements -> {"CloseBox", "ZoomBox", "MinimizeBox", > "ResizeArea"}, > WindowTitle -> "Create Dialog Test", > WindowFloating -> False]; > > CreateDialog[ > "Does Modal depend on the WindowFloating option?\nThis has \ > WindowFloating \[Rule] True\nTry to evaluate another cell in the \ > notebook", > WindowFrame -> "Normal", > WindowElements -> {"MagnificationPopUp", "HorizontalScrollBar", > "VerticalScrollBar"}, > WindowFrameElements -> {"CloseBox", "ZoomBox", "MinimizeBox", > "ResizeArea"}, > WindowTitle -> "Create Dialog Test", > WindowFloating -> True, > Modal -> False]; > > 1 + 1 > > Try to evaluate the last statement with the two different CreateDialog > statements. FWIW, David, I did not encounter any problem with the code above. Indeed, I created several instances of both type of dialog boxes, going back and forth to the notebook and the windows and evaluation some other expressions. I used Mathematica 6.0.2 for Mac OS X 10.5.2 64-bit. I would bet that the issue is platform and version dependent, though this is not of great help! Best regards, -- Jean-Marc