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From: sharvy@reed.UUCP (Harvey Marvy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: user input without dialog boxes
Message-ID: <15845@reed.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 91 07:31:48 GMT
Reply-To: sharvy@reed.UUCP (Harvey Marvy)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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I'm having a hard time figuring out an elegant way to get input from the user 
in the middle of handler without using ask and answer.  I wish to avoid the
dialog boxes for asthetic reasons.  Suppose I want to ask a yes-or-no
question.  I can put the question into a field and then make 2 buttons named
"yes" and "no" to get an answer, but if I put the question from inside a handler
the handler will just continue to execute without waiting for the response.
I tried making the next line 'wait until response is not "" ' where response
was a global variable changed in the yes/no button handlers, but this didn't
work.  So what's the problem.  I have to believe I'm just being dense, and
their's an obvious solution to this problem.

Any enlightenment will be appreciated (if recognized).

Ben.