Ummm... I meant "Laurent"... Sorry... ;-)
Jim Anderson
"Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian
restaurants with oriental women...yeah..."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Anderson [mailto:jiman@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:36 PM
> To: 'newtontalk@planetnewton.com'
> Subject: RE: NTLK Programming question
>
>
> Thanks, Lauren, that's exactly what I'm looking for!
>
> Jim Anderson
>
> "Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian
> restaurants with oriental women...yeah..."
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Laurent Daudelin [mailto:laurent_daudelin@fanniemae.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:32 PM
> > To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> > Subject: Re: NTLK Programming question
> >
> >
> > Jim Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > I've got a programming question for the
> > newtonscript gurus. I want
> > > to create a confirmation slip to ask the user if they
> > really want to delete
> > > something. According to the UI guide, I should give this
> > box a wavy border.
> > > How do I do this? Can I give any view a wavy border, or is
> > there a special
> > > "confirmaion view" that I should use. The Newton
> > programming guide and
> > > references don't seem to have this.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Why not using "ModalConfirm(confirmMessage, buttonList)"?
> > From the Newton Programmer's Reference (pg. 2-32), here's the
> > relevant doc:
> >
> > "This method creates and displays a slip that returns the
> > result of the user's
> > choice. Because this method causes a new task to be spawned,
> > it is less
> > efficient and takes more system overhead, so you should use
> > AsyncConfirm in most cases."
> >
> > As the doc recommends, you could use "AsyncConfirm", but this
> > method immediately returns execution to the NewtonScript code
> > that called it. Since you're looking for a real confirmation,
> > it might be easier to put up this modal so that your code
> > resumes only once the user has made his choice. Depending on
> > what you're doing, it might be easier. However, if you could
> > handle that reply asynchronously, then you should use
> > "AsyncConfirm", which takes one more argument, a method to
> > call that takes one argument, the result of the user's choice.
> >
> > HTH!
> >
> > -Laurent.
> >
> =====================================================================
> > Laurent Daudelin Developer, Adaptive
> Infrastructure, CIS
> > Fannie Mae
> Washington, DC, USA
> > Phone: 703-833-4266
mailto:Laurent_Daudelin@fanniemae.com
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