acl is 'any' Editor dialogue open

[ChrisWestern]

Hi All,

Wondered if anyone knows an easy way to detect if 'any' dialogue is open, not just the main menu ones.

For example below, this works fine to prevent a message pop-up from coming when using 'message' in a timer loop and you open 'save as' dialogue. However open Ctrl-D / Modify Attributes, and you still get a pop-up with this message looping over the top.

Or if it is easier to show the status of something without using 'message' at all?

 dbActive = windows_disabled();

 if (dbActive != 1){

 message "Timer widget is active $nticks"

}

Many thanks

Chris

[naglists]

Take a look at window_list() to detect whether dialogs/windows are open.

What do you want to do instead of message if a window is open? Just curious
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:47 AM, chris western <->
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Wondered if anyone knows an easy way to detect if 'any' dialogue is open,
> not just the main menu ones.
>
> For example below, this works fine to prevent a message pop-up from coming
> when using 'message' in a timer loop and you open 'save as' dialogue.
> However open Ctrl-D / Modify Attributes, and you still get a pop-up with
> this message looping over the top.
>
> Or if it is easier to show the status of something without using 'message'
> at all?
>
> dbActive = windows_disabled();
>
> if (dbActive != 1){
>
> message "Timer widget is active $nticks"
>
> }
>
> Many thanks
>
> Chris
>

[ChrisWestern]

Thanks Paul, will look into that.

I just want to use 'message' to show the user that my widget is running in the status bar, but without it creating a pop-up message when some diogues are opened, which looks to be the default behaviour.

Thanks

Chris

[ClayHelberg]

Hi Chris—

If you just want to post a message to the status bar that always goes to the status bar, you can use

window_set(window_id, “message”, “Some status bar text to display”);

instead of the message command.

--Clay

[ChrisWestern]

Great thanks Clay,

I was clearly searching the docs for the wrong terms! 😉

-C