Temporary Answer Dialoge

[ghettocottage]

I know this is possible, but I cannot find any threads on it, and the search words I am using are so ubiquitous that I am not even close to finding an answer:

Can I have an answer box pop up and then close after a few seconds. Bonus points if it sort of fades out.

my code:

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      if tData is "No Results" then
      answer tData
      end if

Just to be sure, I went ahead and tried this, but it did not work:

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      if tData is "No Results" then
      answer tData close after 3 seconds then fade
      end if

[shaosean]

i don't know about the fade, but you can probably do something like this for the dialog to close after a few seconds..

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if tData is "No Results" then
      answer tData
      send "closeAnswer" to me in 3 seconds
end if

on closeAnswer
      if ("answer" is among the lines of the openStacks) then
            close stack "answer"
      end if
end closeAnswer

I don't have LiveCode installed, so not 100% certain what the name of the answer stack is (I believe it is just answer though).. You may also want to do a check to see if

[Klaus]

Hi Sean,

...You may also want to do a check to see if

yes? Come on, try it!

@ghettocottage
I really would reverse the commands here:

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if tData is "No Results" then
      ## answer tData
      send "closeAnswer" to me in 3 seconds
      answer tData
end if
...

And then you could add a repeat loop in the "closeAnswer" handler to slowly fade out
the stack by setting its BLENDLEVEL.


Best

Klaus

[[-hh]]

was a bit complicated

[dunbarx]

All good stuff. But I wonder if in this case the simplest method is to make your own small dialog stack, and use visual effects.

Craig

[[-hh]]

was a bit complicated

[ghettocottage]

All good stuff. But I wonder if in this case the simplest method is to make your own small dialog stack, and use visual effects.

Craig

Thanks for the different ideas for this. Craig's thought was indeed the simplest and most flexible. I just created a sub stack with a field in it for messages and wrote a little function to show/hide it with whatever message I want.