Re: [Fxruby-users] Dynamically created non-modal dialogs?

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

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