[Oorexx-rfes] [ oorexx-Feature Requests-1794761 ] ooDialog isMinimized & isMaximized

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Feature Requests item #1794761, was opened at 2007-09-14 10:25
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Submitted By: pragmatic_lee (pragmatic_lee)
Assigned to: Mark Miesfeld (miesfeld)
Summary: ooDialog isMinimized & isMaximized

Initial Comment:
Add a couple of new methods to ooDialog that will return the state of a dialog in regards to minimized & maximized.

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>Comment By: Rick McGuire (bigrixx)
Date: 2007-09-14 14:09

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I believe these methods should be added also.  This function belongs as
part of the base class rather than achieved in a back-door fashion.

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Comment By: Mark Miesfeld (miesfeld)
Date: 2007-09-14 14:08

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I think it makes sense to have this functionality in ooDialog.

It seems to me:

As users write more sophisticated ooDialog applications the functionality
of being able to determine if the dialog is minimized or maximized is
needed.

It seems more intuitive that, when writing ooDialog applications, there
would be an ooDialog method to get the state of the dialog window.

It would be very little overhead to add the functionality to the ooDialog
DLL and then the user would not have to load two separate DLLs and use an
extra requires directive in their ooDialog.

Of course it makes the overall Windows ooRexx package slightly bigger
because you have a few lines of duplicate code.

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Comment By: pragmatic_lee (pragmatic_lee)
Date: 2007-09-14 13:45

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I will leave this up to the developers to decide if this RFE should be
accepted.  There is another means of determining this information using the
winsystm.cls; however, a bug in that class (already reported) means that
the user must explicitly load the external functions.

Personally, I still think these methods would be a nice addition to
ooDialog even though the same thing can be achieved in multiple lines of
code using the winsystm.cls
if RxFuncAdd("InstWinSysFuncs","RXWINSYS.DLL","InstWinSysFuncs") = 0 then
  call InstWinSysFuncs
winObj = .WindowObject~new(handle)
state = winObj~state~translate
if state~wordPos('MINIMIZED') > 0 then 
  isMinimized = .true
else
  isMinimized = .false
if state~wordPos('ZOOMED') > 0 then 
  isMaximized = .true
else
  isMaximized = .false

Lee

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