DD V0.7 User Guide

DD v0.7 (User Guide) Page 1 of 272 Saved: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 11:37:29 PM Version 0.7, February 1998 Copyright © 1996-1998 Christopher E. Hyde. All rights reserved. drjekyll@hylight.demon.co.uk http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/ Contents Welcome Licence How You Can Help About the Author Release Notes Installing Dialog Director Auto Dialogs and Live Dialogs Event Handlers dd auto dialog - create, display and interact with a dialog window dd calc dialog bounds - calculate the bounding rectangle of a dialog window dd count dialogs - return the number of open dialogs dd delete - delete dialog items or close and delete a dialog window dd get - retrieve properties from objects dd install- create and initialise the Dialog Director environment dd interact with user - interact with the front dialog window dd make - create one or more dialog items in an open dialog dd make dialog - create and display a dialog window dd set - set properties of objects dd uninstall - clean up and remove the Dialog Director environment Object Classes dialog - data used to create a dialog dialog item - a dialog item push button - a push button item check box - a check box item radio button - a single radio button item radio group - a group of radio buttons pop up - a pop-up menu item list box - a scrolling, text list icon list box - a scrolling, labeled, icon list text field- an optionally labelled editable text item password field - an opaque editable text item static text - a static text item group box - an optionally labelled rectangular frame item pict - a static picture item icon - a static icon item dummy - a dummy dialog item color picker - a colour picking item gauge - a graphical magnitude/progress indicator generic control - a generic control item icon push button - a push button with an icon & a beveled edge icon toggle button - a toggle button with an icon & a beveled edge icon sticky button - a sticky button with an icon & a beveled edge icon radio button - a radio button with an icon & a beveled edge poly push button - a clickable polygon area poly toggle button - a toggling polygon area poly sticky button - a sticky polygon area poly radio button - a radio button polygon area movie controller - a QuickTime movie controller font spec - a text font specification The Global Font Spec Table Dependencies Error Codes Dialog Dumper Introductory Examples Contents of ‘Examples’ Folder Known Problems and Limitations Other Scripting Additions Welcome Welcome to Dialog Director v0.7. This is the February 1998 public release of the Dialog Director scri Please use Dialog Director and tell me what you think. I intend to enhance and maintain it based on th The reason that this release is called v0.7 and not v1.0 is because I am still adding features and the Current features include Dialog item types • Push buttons - with user defined default button,…