Re: [libreoffice-users] Is LO BASIC Limited to Only 1 Dialog Box at a Time?

It can be done!

I don't know if it's dangerous or not, but the link on oooforum.org (when it's up) either had a 
link to another post or I found this by searching for "modal dialog" on that site.  This example 
(http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=8481) uses AWT, going through LO, to make windows. 
 You can't use the Dialog Designer in the LO IDE, but you get full control over your window.

I took this example, ran it, and it opened a window.  So I copied the code in the Main routine, 
pasted it in at the end of that routine, and it created another window with some differences I 
edited in.

So, as best I can tell, you can't create multiple dialog windows with "normal" dialogs in LO, but 
you can do it if you use the AWT toolkit.

But for my own stuff - this got me thinking about what I wanted to do and in that time I've had to 
think, I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't just use my other idea, which would store notes in a 
LO document and on the computer hard drive, too - it'd basically be a stick notes program that 
integrates with LO so notes can be associated with a document.  But that's just a side not that, in 
the time it took to research this, I may have found a different way to do things that doesn't need 
two dialogs open at once.


Hal

On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:

> On 02/25/2013 01:52 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > I've been experimenting because I want to write a sticky-note program that will allow a user to 
> > write sticky notes that accompany a document.  When you switch from one document window to 
> > another, the notes from the 1st would close and the notes from the 2nd would open (if you've 
> > already opened them).
> >
> > The problem I'm running into is that if I display a dialog (with oDialog.setVisible(True)), I 
> > can display one, but then the next one I try to display doesn't appear.  I even tried to display 
> > a dialog then put up a message box, and that won't work.
> >
> > Is this a limit with LO BASIC?  Can only one dialog be open at a time?  Or is there a way to get 
> > around this?
> >
> > (I'm thinking if I can't, then I might write a program in another language to do this, but that 
> > would be tougher and would be like almost any sticky note program.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Hal
> http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5815
>
> THis link used to have something useful, so, if this forum is up, it should be useful!
>
> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=14095
>
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> Andrew Pitonyak
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> Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
>
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