Justification of text in MessageDlg

[nater]

OK, does the justify option not work in the BWidget MessageDlg?
Whether I do

MessageDlg .msgdlg -parent . -message "Why doesn't\nthis thing work?" -type ok -justify center -icon info

or even

MessageDlg .msgdlg -parent . -message "Why doesn't
this thing work?" -type ok -justify center -icon info

I get all the text justified left. -justify right doesn't seem to work either.

 

[AviaTraining]

Well, I've identified why it doesn't work, but not why it was designed that way. By diving into the code, I discovered that in many cases, BWidget's MessageDlg simply massages its arguments and calls tk_messageBox, rather than building a dialog from scratch. I suppose that this takes advantage of the platform-native dialog styles provided by tk_messageBox. But the disadvantage to this approach is that several MessageDlg options, including -justify and -aspect, aren't supported by tk_messageBox and so they are ignored.

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[nater]

Ha.. well, that's stupid.. =)
"in many cases"? So sometimes these options will work?

 

[AviaTraining]

Yes, sometimes they'll work. I've not gone through all of the logic of the code, but it appears that if you have a -type user dialog, the options work; any other type ends up using the tk_messageBox. - Ken Jones, President
Avia Training and Consulting

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[nater]

OK, great. Thanks.