Popup window like dialog and opendialog

just use a subpatcher. you can use "open" to [pcontrol] to pop it open, either by mouse click or some other means, and you can control the appearance (like floating/non-floating, title bar/no bar, etc.) with [thispatcher] inside the subpatch. Without a title bar, you'll need a way to close the window: again, "close" to [pcontrol], but it has to go out an outlet to the [pcontrol] that's outside...it closes itself from the inside, seems a little weird but works fine.

I use [pcontrol] so that I can hide the actual "p subpatch" object, and make the open button a nice-looking textbutton labeled "Help" or whatever's appropriate. You can center the text in [textbutton] which makes it look nicer than a message box IMO, and there's no text wrapping problems.

with a subpatch of course you can also have input if you want...really, you can have pretty much anything :)

but how to get that bottom menu (lock, new object, zoom, etc.) away?

@xidance:

send message window flags notitle, window exec to thispatcher for removing titlebar.
you get rid of the bottom menu easily in the patcher inspector! just uncheck: show toolbar on open.
you may want to check open in presentation too ?
check the helpfile for [thispatcher]

cheers

it doesn´m matter if presentation mode, the bottom menu is there in both.

but it's ok. i just asked for a standalone which someone will use who's just using Max' runtime (which has no bottom menu).

no it shouldn`t be there if you save the patcher with "show toolbar on open" in the patcher inspector!
i did it many times

have a look

ok thanks, i'll have it for future.

I'm also wondering if there is a dialog function as the OP described.

I'd like to create a very basic warning popup that describes the issue, then requires the user to click the box "okay" (or whatever the text would be) in order to be allowed to continue using the patch. Similar to when you, say, "save as" in Max and you're unable to interact with any windows until the "save as" window is closed.

I'm aware that you can create a patcher without any menus, status bars etc. to do a similar function, but this method still allows the user to operate the patch while this warning dialog window is open.

Any suggestions?

It's called a 'modal dialog'. Would be a nice thing to have.

I'd just like to be able to have a max window that wouldn't allow the toolbars to be unpinned. I have a small patch without menu or titlebar that I use for navigation. I want it as small as possible, but when mousing I'm constantly unpinning the toolbars on every side.

Is there any way to make these toolbars stay hidden?