Can You do this?

[richmond62]

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[richmond62]

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The 'difficulty' seems to be working out WHICH type of HTML code to use.

For instance:

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<p style="color:red;"><b><font size="32">Do you like this bunny?</font></b></p>
<p><img src="cony"></p>

Does NOT turn the text red.

And nor does this:

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<p  style="color:#FF0000";><b><font size="32">Do you like this bunny?</font></b></p>
<p><img src="cony"></p>

But this does:

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<p><b><font size="32" color="red">Do you like this bunny?</font></b></p>
<p><img src="cony"></p>

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[stam]

However, the 'problem' about using a substack as an answer palette is that it can get obscured by other substacks unless one is very careful.

You really didn't read, or at least comprehend, my post, did you? I said "presented as modal"

If a stack is modal, no other stacks can be in front of it, and much like an answer dialog, it needs to be dismissed for the app to proceed.
So there is no benefit to misusing the answer dialog this way as far as I can see.

While Klaus' solution is great inasmuch as it answers your question, I would not recommend this for the purpose you describe.

You tie your hands behind your back with this approach because the entire layout has to be decided by the picture you display (i.e. you'll have to format every single picture for size/background/etc so the answer dialogs will always fit your app). You have no other control over coding or layout, whereas with a substack you can control everything and the coding, as mentioned, is trivial.

But hey, knock yourself out if you wan to do that, I really don't care.
I only make these comments to make it obvious there are other and (as far as I'm concerned) better ways of achieve the exact same result for those who may come across this thread, even if they manage to find it thanks to your opaque choice of title.

[richmond62]

You really didn't read, or at least comprehend

Read it, and I comprehended it perfectly well, but as I was fixated on mucking around with the in-built ask and answer dialogues I brushed it aside.

You tie your hands behind your back

I am both kinky and masochistic.

the entire layout has to be decided by the picture you display (i.e. you'll have to format every single picture for size/background/etc so the answer dialogs will always fit your app).

So?

Either way I have to spend yonks b*ggering around with the settings.

Chacun à son goût, mon ami.

[stam]

Like I said, I really could not care less what you choose to do.

I was just pointing out the error in your statement

it can get obscured by other substacks unless one is very careful.

which can never apply to modal stacks, and invalidates your argument.

[richmond62]

You are right, that does invalidate that argument.

If one wants to be picky about logic.
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BUT, there is one thing that you forget about xTalk in general, and LiveCode more specifically, and that is that there is absolutely no reason to be dogmatic about almost everything, and that there is always more than one way to achieve anything, and the knowledge of the any ways to do things is an enriching experience.

Recently the idea of 'fuzzy logic' has taken root in various thinking minds.

And as an adherent to the theory of Cognitive Linguistics (c.f. my MA thesis on an important aspect of Prototypicality Theory [or, "Anti-Plato"]) I am wary of any categorical claims to what constitutes something and what does not.

An earlier love of mine (John Locke) entirely rejected the Platonic theory of forms and worked out a theory that everything was 100% empirical, unfortunately many, many people, not least myself, found that some empirical evidence showed (or 'shewed' as a lecturer of mine always put things) that everything coul not be empirical, but at least some of our knowledge had to come from elsewhere, whether intuition, divine revelation, or pre-programming in the infant brain . . .

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Re Modal dialogue windows versus ask/answer 'things': 'Tain't worth the hot air, as I go to Scotland via the High road, and you go via the Low road.

[richmond62]

Like I said, I really could not care less what you choose to do.

I was just pointing out the error in your statement

If you don't care why did you bother to point something out.

I am perfectly capable of working out what's logical and what isn't.

[stam]

If you don't care why did you bother to point something out.

Give it a rest.

I'm pointing it out because it's not just about you. This is a public forum read by all, and every post here should be to show the best possible answer, to help all. If there is a better answer, I'm happy to be corrected, because that helps me and all that read the forum.

if you want to stab yourself in the eye go right ahead. But others may choose not to.

I am perfectly capable of working out what's logical and what isn't.

QED

[richmond62]

Ah, but in this case there is no best possible answer: there are several answers each with advantages.

[dunbarx]

Stam. Richard.

Stop.

Craig

[richmond62]

Craij . . .

Who is 'Richard'?

Love and tickles, Richmond.

[dunbarx]

Richmond.

Rats. That is the third time in our long history I have done that, and the third time you have answered in exactly that way.

Could it be because I secretly want to be Richard Gaskin?

Craig