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Undocumented methods for the DialogBox component

The following methods were added or changed after the documentation was created.

Highlights

	Method	Description
New	MDialogBox.doOpen()	This method shows a previously instantiated dialog instance.
New	MDialogBox.setIsModal()	This method determines whether the dialog will be modal or non-modal.
Change	MDialogBox.doClose()	This method will no longer execute a .removeMovieClip function when closed, but hides it instead.
Change	MDialogBox.configureModalDialog()	This method will no longer recreate the interactionKiller function with every call, but will instead toggle the setting to show or hide it.

MDialogBox.doOpen

• Usage: myDialog.doOpen()
• Parameters: none
• Returns: nothing
• Description: Method; initiates an open event and shows a previously instantiated dialog box instance.
• Example: myDialog.doOpen();

MDialogBox.setIsModal()

• Usage: myDialog.setIsModal(boolean)
• Parameters: A Boolean value: true will make the dialog box modal, or false will make the dialog box non-modal.
• Returns: nothing
• Description: Method; indicates whether the dialog box is modal or non-modal.

MDialogBox.doClose

• Description: Method; initiates a close event and hides the dialog box. Note: this method hides the dialog box by setting _visible = 0. If you want to completely remove the box from memory, you can call removeMovieClip() .

MDialogBox.configureModalDialog

• Description: Method; this method initiates the modal screen, but only creates it once, then toggles between show/hidden.

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