cancel buttons

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Jul 5 2005, 3:33 am
How does one make an alert pop up that allows users to select items from a list, confirm their choice with an OK button, or cancel with a Cancel button.

I'm currently doing it with input() and adding "Cancel" to the end of the list, but I'd rather have a nice little button.

I'd rather not use arguments in a verb because that doesn't allow for me to set prompts/titles on the popup box.
Jul 5 2005, 3:39 am
F1 alert(). You can enter names for up to three buttons.
Jul 5 2005, 4:14 am
In response to Artekia
But how do you combine buttons and lists?
Jul 5 2005, 4:39 am
Add null to the types of input it takes.
client/verb/test()
    var/item = input("Choose one.")as null|anything in list("a","b")
    if(!item)return
    src << item
Jul 5 2005, 5:11 am
In response to Fartmonger
You can't. I don't know if that will be a feature in 4.0, I hope so, but you can't at the moment.
Jul 5 2005, 6:18 am
In response to Loduwijk
Oh thank'ee kindly, that's exactly what I was looking for =)
Jul 5 2005, 11:13 am
In response to Fartmonger
Wah? What do you mean? Do you mean like:
mob/verb/test()
  var/list/l=list("Hi, world!","Bye, world!","Nothing")
  var/t=alert(src,"What would you like to say?","Say",l[1],l[2],l[3])
  if(t!="Nothing")world<<t

?
Jul 7 2005, 5:57 am
In response to Loduwijk
How would you do it with an input box with Ok and Cancel for a msg to the world, but instead of having to choose Okay or Cancel theres a text input box. Just the buttons are there.
Jul 7 2005, 6:10 am
In response to Niran
Something like this?
mob/verb/WSay()
    var/msg=input("What do you want to say to the world?","Wsay") as null|text
    world << "[src]: [msg]"

Arguments already have cancel buttons, but they don't allow you to define titles and messages on the box.
Jul 7 2005, 6:14 am
In response to Fartmonger
I am just wondering but. I am used to use:
(var/msg as text)

But is that null you putted there really needed? If so why?

O-matic
Jul 7 2005, 6:17 am
In response to O-matic
O-matic wrote:
I am just wondering but. I am used to use:
(var/msg as text)

But is that null you putted there really needed? If so why?

O-matic

It wasn't needed, I was wrong, but I ninja edited it to fix it :P

The problem I have with using args is you're not allowed to define what it says in the input box... at least, as far as I know, you're not.