Closing Dialog box

Is there anyway to close the blue dialog menu box under script control? I have not been able to find anything and I would like to close it when it times out rather than leave it open and just inactive.

Nope. The dialog box is entirely client-side and user-controlled. Probably a good thing, too.

Now, if you're looking to make your script not sit waiting for their input, you could put a timer that activates and if after 30s or so it hasn't gotten a response, have it turn off the listen tied to the dialog window, which to your script is the same as closing the dialog since as Talarus states, the actual 'blue box' is only client side.

It really irks me that the 'ignore' does not send some sort of event on these dialogs!

I already timeout and close the listen, just would be nice if I could make the dialog box close at the same time.

Then you wouldn't be "ignoring" it.

But I wouldn't have to guestimate the amount of time a user should be in menu's, time out, and possibly change states with a stale dialog hanging in the air anytime soembody goes to take a piss and comes back to a dialog that no longer does anything. Why don't we change the special button's label from 'ignore' to 'close', give me an event, and call it sorted

*giggles* One cunundrum now (absent the sort of callback that Shadow suggests) is what to say upon timeout of the dialog's listen: whether or not to IM the Dear User that those buttons that may or may not be on their screen don't work anymore.

I used to do that, on the premise that having controls visible that don't work would be confusing unless the user were told.

But now I just sneakily remove the listen, on the premise that, first, defunct buttons are confusing no matter what excuse I give for them, and that second, if the user had already said "ignore" they'd be really confused to hear from the script again (especially if they have a dialog visible from some other script by this time).

I've gone the other route of leaving the listen active until they either pick something, or I get a new touch event, in which case I remove the listen and create a new one for the new interactee (who may actually finish their session). Due to annoying myself with the gone_to_pee issue, primarily. Hey sometimes I gotta pee before I know what radio station I want, dammit.