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

Hal ,
> 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,


Yes you can, but it depends how you construct the dialog

1: Modal
    oDialogcontrol.setvisible(true)
    oDialogControl.execute

here the dialog is opened and only after closing your code comes back to 
just behind the "excute", so al new dialogs (and other actions) have to 
been opened from a button on the first dialog, the user can only works 
in the last opened dialog....

2: Non Modal
    public bEnd1 as boolean
    odialogControl1.setvisible(true)
    Do
    Wait 100
    Loop while not bEnd1

here the dialog is opened and your code is avancing after the setting 
of  bEnd1, the dialog is closed when setting bEnd1 to true.. The user 
can now working outside the dialog  and open different dialogs  ect..
every bEnd and every dialog object have to have different namens.
Minus  is that Throbers an taskbars and time keeping not works because 
the machine is confused with the bEnd loops...
public bEnd2 as boolean
    odialogControl2.setvisible(true)
    Do
    Wait 100
    Loop while not bEnd2
3: AWT
   is non-modal and  Throbbers and task bars and time keeping are working

hope it helps

Fernand
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Pitonyak
> > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
> > Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
> >
> >
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