Field Entry Dialog Box

 

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This is a basic field entry dialog box that uses the MUI Xtra.

--Copyright 1999 Chuck Neal --chuck@mediamacros.com --If you find this code helpful, send me an e-mail and let me know.  :-) global box, valueList on createDialog whatTitle, whatPrompt, defaultText , handler   box = new(xtra "MUI")   valueList = [#nameField : defaultText]   boxProp = getWindowPropList(box)   boxProp[#name] = whatTitle   boxProp[#callback] = "boxcallback"   boxProp[#xPosition] = -1   boxProp[#yPosition] = -1   boxProp[#width] = 0   boxProp[#height] = 0   boxProp[#mode] = #data     --define the elements   windowStart = [#value : 0, #type : #windowBegin, #attributes : [], #title : "", #tip : "", #width: 0, #height: 0, #enabled: 1]   groupHValStart = [#value : 0, #type : #groupHBegin, #attributes : [#centerH], #title : "", #tip : "", #width: 0, #height: 0, #enabled: 1]   groupHValEnd = [#value : 0, #type : #groupHEnd, #attributes : [], #title : "", #tip : "", #width: 0, #height: 0, #enabled: 1]   nameLabel = [#value: WhatPrompt, #type: #label, #attributes: [], #title: "Input", #tip: "", #width: 0, #height: 0, #enabled: 1]   nameField = [#value : valueList[#nameField], #type : #editText, #attributes : [], #title: "NameField", #tip: "tip", #locH: 20, #locV: 24, #width: 200, #height: 210, #enabled: 1]   okButton = [#type : #pushButton, #attributes : [], #title : "OK", #tip : "OK", #width : 60, #height : 0,  #enabled : true]   cancelButton = [#type : #pushButton, #attributes : [], #title : "Cancel", #tip : "Cancel", #width : 0, #height : 0,  #enabled : true]   windowEnd = [#value : 0, #type : #windowEnd, #attributes : [], #title : "", #tip : "", #width: 0, #height: 0, #enabled: 1]   --create the box"s paramater list   contentList = [windowStart, nameLabel, nameField, groupHValStart, okButton, cancelButton, grouphValEnd, windowEnd]   --set a global list ofthe changeable paramaters   valueList = [#nameField : ""]   --initialize the box     Initialize(box, [#windowPropList:boxProp, ¬ #windowItemList:contentList])   --run the box   test = run(box)     do(handler & "(valueList)") end on boxCallback event, eventData, itemPropList, thisPropList   case event of     #itemChanged :       case itemPropList[#title] of         "NameField" :           valueList[#nameField] = itemPropList[#value]                 end case       #itemClicked :       case itemPropList[#title] of         "OK" :           stop(box, 1)           return valueList                   "Cancel" :           stop(box, 0)       end case   end case end on getBehaviorDescription me   return "This script accepts input for the boxes title(whatTitle), the question or prompt on the box(whatPrompt), the default string for the answer(defaultText) , and the name of a handler to use with the returned list(handler). The first 3 are any string you want to use. For the handler, put the name of the handler without the (), or -- for no handler." end