[vwnc] Dialog Box Improvements

It would be nice if VisualWorks supported resizable modal dialog
boxes. Also, dialog boxes in Windows should have the ability to not
display any icon, and not have an entry on the task bar.

Details on dialog boxes on Windows is found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx

Kind regards
Runar Jordahl
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+1 on the resizable modal dialogs. There have been a few occasions where I wanted all the behavior of a dialog--but to be resizable. I'd always found it silly that the window standards years ago defined a dialog by not being resizable. The modal behavior is what people care about when they use a dialog. IBM tended to be involved in the original windows standards but even VisualAge made it easy to create resizable modal dialogs.

Paul Baumann

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It would be nice if VisualWorks supported resizable modal dialog boxes. Also, dialog boxes in Windows should have the ability to not display any icon, and not have an entry on the task bar.

Details on dialog boxes on Windows is found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx

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VW dialogs can be made resizeable but they are not really
modal in that they can be obscured and when you try to click
in another window you don't get the "boing". However, with
respect to VW they act dialogs.

I think to do it right requires a VM change.

Terry
 
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+1 on the resizable modal dialogs. There have been a few occasions where I wanted all the behavior of a dialog--but to
be resizable. I'd always found it silly that the window standards years ago defined a dialog by not being resizable. The
modal behavior is what people care about when they use a dialog. IBM tended to be involved in the original windows
standards but even VisualAge made it easy to create resizable modal dialogs.

Paul Baumann

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Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:19 AM
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It would be nice if VisualWorks supported resizable modal dialog boxes. Also, dialog boxes in Windows should have the
ability to not display any icon, and not have an entry on the task bar.

Details on dialog boxes on Windows is found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511268.aspx

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Runar Jordahl
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Runar Jordahl wrote:
> It would be nice if VisualWorks supported resizable modal dialog
> boxes.

We just add something like the Aragon resizable widget to the bottom
right corner, and users can drag that to resize. The meat of the widget
controller is below.

Steve

(called from #redButtonPressedEvent:)
        | win windowDecorationRectangle bounds box decorationExtent
newBounds |
        win := self view topComponent.
        windowDecorationRectangle := OSSystemSupport concreteClass new
windowDecorationRectangle.
        bounds := win globalOrigin extent: win extent.
        box := bounds expandedBy: windowDecorationRectangle.
        decorationExtent := box extent - bounds extent.
        box := Screen default
                        resizeRectangle: box
                        minimumExtent: win minimumSize +
decorationExtent
                        resizeIncrement: 1@1
                        boundedBy:
                                (box origin extent: win maximumSize +
decorationExtent)
                        whileButton: 0
                        isDown: true.
        newBounds := box insetBy: windowDecorationRectangle.
        win displayBox: newBounds.


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