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From: sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: XCMD  DIALOG BOX
Keywords: xcmd, dialog,
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Date: 4 Aug 89 16:07:53 GMT
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In article <2738@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> yarri@muon.eng.ohio-state.edu (Zaka U. Bhatti) writes:
>
>Hello.
>
> Does anyone know of a xcmd that will allow me to 'ask' for more than
> three choices in a dialog box?

I don't think so.  (You want 'answer', not ask, btw.)

> I have a data base in which I want to
> be able to sort on any of 5 fields. It would be nice to have a 5 button
> dialog box appear with 5 choices and a cancel.

You could always create a card with six buttons on it and skip the dialog
box...

> Is there something like this out there, or should I get hacking?

If you really want something like this, grab the "ask" stack from
ssyx.  It contains source code, and all of the dialog centering, default
button drawing and so on is already handled.  You could quite easily
modify it to do a six-button answer.

>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Doug

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