Thanks, Lauren, that's exactly what I'm looking for!
Jim Anderson
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> -----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.
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