[opensource-dev] Need help about EXT-1285

[Marine Kelley]

Thanks WolfPup. With this change and a couple other tweaks, I could
finally get an inverted dialog box, which achieves exactly what I
wanted with my option 1.

Kudos !
Marine

On 31/10/2011, WolfPup Lowenhar <wolfpup67 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The position of the buttons can be easily move by changing line 87 of
> panel_notification.xml.
> Orginal : follows="left|right|bottom"
> Top placement : follows="left|right|top"  <- this should move the buttons to
> the top of the layout but also might have to move lines 85-99 to the top of
> the xml file as well plus modify the other sections accordingly.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opensource-dev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com [mailto:opensource-dev-
>> bounces at lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Marine Kelley
>> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 11:54 AM
>> To: opensource-dev at lists.secondlife.com
>> Subject: [opensource-dev] Need help about EXT-1285
>>
>> Hi all ! I need help !
>>
>> I'm working on adapting my RLV to version 3.2.0 of the viewer, and
>> hitting a wall here. Let me explain the problem :
>>
>> In V1.x, script dialog boxes (the blue menus) were located on the
>> upper right corner of the screen, with a fixed size text area in which
>> the script could write what it wanted (up to 512 chars), with a
>> scrollbar when needed. Then there were the buttons below that area.
>> This had a nice side effect though, the buttons were always at the
>> same place on the screen, so for repetitive tasks with dialogs you
>> knew well, you didn't have to actually read before clicking.
>>
>> The scrollbar wasn't very practical, so LL decided to move the dialogs
>> down to the lower right corner of the screen in v2.x, in exchange of
>> making the dialogs variable in size. Best of both worlds, the dialogs
>> were showing all the info at first glance without the need for a
>> scrollbar, and the buttons were always at the same spot (although the
>> sidebar was complicating things a little, but it was still workable).
>>
>> Now in v3 the dialogs are back to the upper right corner of the screen
>> as part of EXT-1285 (coded and released by Seth Productengine). Ok,
>> but no scrollbar means the buttons are NOT always at the same place
>> anymore and that... is unacceptable to me. I absolutely need to change
>> this, this is not practicable as it is.
>>
>> So I have two options. Either leave the dialogs where they are now and
>> move the buttons of the dialog window BEFORE the text, or move the
>> dialogs back to the lower right corner of the screen.
>>
>> Option 1 is good for v1 users, but a little confusing since the
>> dialogs would not look like they always did. However I have spent some
>> time looking for a way to do this, and never found HOW to move these
>> buttons up before the text. I know the dialog is roughly defined in
>> notifications.xml under the name "ScriptDialog", but I don't see where
>> the list of buttons is constructed. The point of this email is partly
>> to ask how to do this.
>>
>> Option 2 is good for v2 users, however it has a nasty side-effect :
>> notification boxes ("are you sure you want to quit" and such) are
>> linked to the tool bar or something. I haven't found where to change
>> that and this is also the point of this email.
>>
>> I prefer option 1 personally, but I fear moving the buttons would look
>> like a lame hack. Can anybody give me pointers about how to implement
>> either option please ? Or better, both options !
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Marine
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