Setting the location of an Answer Dialog

[gyroscope]

Hallo, how do I script to set the loc of an answer/ask dialog please?

Also, I've been using

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set the loc of this stack to the screenloc

which works fine, except from the bottom of the screen to the bottom of the window includes the menu bar's height as extra. I know this has been asked before on the Forum but after spending twenty minutes trying to find the post without success, I thought I'd ask the question again, if that's OK:

Could anyone help with that neat bit of scripting to centre the window to the screen exactly please? (If I put my mind to it, I probably could work it out, but it'd be clumsy coding, I'm sure... )

[Mark]

Hi Gyroscope,

This subject came up several times on the Mail List. You might find something useful here.

Best,

Mark

[gyroscope]

Thank you Mark, I keep forgetting that Mail List for info!

[FourthWorld]

Rather than the screenloc, you may find it more consistent with other dialogs to have the position slightly above center. I use this function to place the dialog horizontally centered but only two-fifths down from the top:

function AlertLoc
return item 1 of the screenLoc, (item 4 of the screenRect div 5 )*2
end AlertLoc

[gyroscope]

Thank you Richard, for the neat function. I'll certainly be using that!

[keram]

Hi Richard and gyroscope,

function AlertLoc
return item 1 of the screenLoc, (item 4 of the screenRect div 5 )*2
end AlertLoc

Could you please explain more in details how to use this function?

Thanks!

keram