LiveCode Popup modal Window

[wmiriye]

In my project, I have added another stack to place my pop up windows for my android app. When the pop up is loaded, it covers the whole screen and I don;t want that. When testing in LiveCode, it displays correctly, but when testing in in my android phone, the pop up window covers the whole screen.

How do I set it up in the script so that the modal windows do not cover the whole screen. but shows the background card a bit darker than the pop up window. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[richmond62]

Have you defined the dimensions of your modal window?

In stack of modal window:

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on preOpenStack
   set the width of me to 150
   set the height of me to 100
end preOpenStack

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Just a thought.

Mind you, as far as I know Android and iOS ONLY allow one window to be open at a time.

[wmiriye]

I tried changing the size on load but still not working....

[mrcoollion]

Maybe you could trick the situation with generating a PrintScreen and placing it as a background in the Modal Windows Stack?
Just an idea....

[wmiriye]

good idea, I wonder if I could take a screenshot at runtime and automatically make it the background of my modal window...I'll dig around on that.

I still don't understand why the size is not working on runtime. could it be my main stack settings are overriding the dimensions on my sub-stack?

[Klaus]

HI wmiriye,

THIS is the key:

Mind you, as far as I know Android and iOS ONLY allow one window to be open at a time.

See above, that is the reason why every stack will be resized to cover the complete screen on mobile!

I still don't understand why the size is not working on runtime. could it be my main stack settings are overriding the dimensions on my sub-stack?

You could fake it like this:
1. Create an opaque graphic in size of your stack/card
2. Set its blendlevel (optional)
3. Create a field and a button, and/or whatever you want to appear in your "modal window fake"
4. GROUP everything from 1 to 3
5. Hide this group
Now you can "open" the "fake" stack with:

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...
show grp "my fake stack"
...

You get the picture.

OR use the OS ASK and ANSWER dialogs.


Best

Klaus

[wmiriye]

Thanks Klaus, will do that. Too bad, one window shows up at a time.

[wmiriye]

Used groups and hide and showed them as pop ups. works nice.