Centering Dialog Boxes

Dexter1 · Post by **Dexter1** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:00 pm

Is there a way to make a dialog box appear on the center of a screen, regardless of the monitor size? I know I can change the Top and Left numbers to move the dialog box, but that may not always be the center.

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Dialog>Dialog2
   Caption=Ship Short Workflow Installer
   Width=218
   Height=67
   Top=104
   Left=16
   ProgressBar=msProgressBar1,8,8,193,17,0
EndDialog>Dialog2
Show>Dialog2

Dexter1 · Post by **Dexter1** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:43 pm

Wow, good thing I posted this in the Newbie section! I found the answer on page 50 of the manual.

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Dialog>Dialog2 
Caption=Ship Short Workflow Installer 
Width=218 
Height=67 
Top=Center 
Left=Center
ProgressBar=msProgressBar1,8,8,193,17,0 
EndDialog>Dialog2 
Show>Dialog2

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:44 pm

Well done!

obfusc88 · Post by **obfusc88** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:13 pm

i just tried this to center my Dialog and it did not work for me. it just shows up at top left corner. what am i doing wrong?

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:17 pm

The value of CENTER is Case Sensitive, as shown in the Help file.

This does work:

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Dialog>Dialog2
     Caption=Ship Short Workflow Installer
     Width=218
     Height=67
     Top=CENTER
     Left=CENTER
     ProgressBar=msProgressBar1,8,8,193,17,0
EndDialog>Dialog2

Show>Dialog2

Experiment:
Try changing Top and Bottom to lowercase "center" one at a time and see that those will translate to "0". If not all UPPERCASE characters, it defaults to zero.

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:18 pm

CENTER needs to be capitalized.

Dialog>Dialog2
Caption=Ship Short Workflow Installer
Width=218
Height=67
Top=CENTER
Left=CENTER
ProgressBar=msProgressBar1,8,8,193,17,0
EndDialog>Dialog2
Show>Dialog2

obfusc88 · Post by **obfusc88** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:46 pm

thank you to bob hansen and to jrl for the speedy answer. and you both have the same answer too. i have just made the changes in a Dialog that jrl created for me. it is all coming together. great help, thank you again.