Re: CreateDialog Pecularity
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- Subject: [mg87305] Re: [mg87272] CreateDialog Pecularity
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:16:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net
This problem appears to be version dependent. With 6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit), I did not have any problem executing another cell with the dialog open in either case.
Bob Hanlon
---- David Park <djmpark at comcast.net> 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.
>
> --
> David Park
> djmpark at comcast.net
> http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/
>
>
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