On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Kevin Burge wrote:
> I'm looking at the dialogs example, and it looks like the only
> difference between a modal and non-modal dialog is that the non-modal
> dialog was created in the initialization.
>
> I just did a test with a dialog that I know works, and it is true: a
> modal dialog is made non-modal just by moving it to the initialization
> method.
Well, not quite. There's nothing about the dialog box itself (including
when it's created) that inherently makes it modal or non-modal. It
depends on how you "invoke" the dialog box (for lack of a better term).
To display a dialog box non-modally, just call show() on it:
aDialogBox.show
To show a dialog box and then start a modal event loop for it, you can
instead use the execute method:
aDialogBox.execute
The FXDialogBox#execute method is just a simple convenience method; if
it were implemented in Ruby, it would look something like this:
def execute(placement=PLACEMENT_CURSOR)
create
show(placement)
getApp().runModalFor(self)
end
Hope this helps,
Lyle
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