RE: [Pythoncard-users] modal dialogs for PythonCard

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

I had an import conflict problem with putting the GenericDialog class into
dialog.py that I was unable to track down, so I just checked it in as
dialognew.py. The example code below should work without changes.

ka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyt...@li...
> [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Altis
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 4:21 PM
> To: pythoncard-Users
> Subject: [Pythoncard-users] modal dialogs for PythonCard
>
>
> I am pleased to say that after some false starts yesterday and today, some
> email exchanges with Robin, a bit of inspiration, and a generous
> donation to
> the god of kludge, we are close to having generic modal dialogs in
> PythonCard. I've included an example below.
>
> The nice thing about the modal dialogs is that they work almost
> identically
> to the Background class. They don't have a menubar or a background image,
> but all of the widgets that we have now should work in the modal
> dialog and
> the attribute and event handlers work identically.
>
> Well not quite identically. Both the default button and the cancel buttons
> need to call event.skip() and you have to add an id attribute to the
> resource
>
> I'm going to mull over this tonight before putting the code into cvs, but
> I'll post when I do. I have some other issues I want to address on this
> topic, but I have to run right now, so I'll post on those issues later as
> well.
>
> ka
> ---
>
> class FindDialog(PythonCardPrototype.dialognew.GenericDialog):
>     def __init__(self, aBg, searchText='', wholeWordsOnly=0,
> caseSensitive=0) :
>         # load the resource
>         aDialogRsrc =
> PythonCardPrototype.res.ResourceFile('find.rsrc.py').getResource()
>
>         PythonCardPrototype.dialognew.GenericDialog.__init__(self, aBg,
> aDialogRsrc)
>
>         # if some special setup is necessary, do it here
>         self.components.fldFind.text = searchText
>         self.components.chkMatchWholeWordOnly.checked = wholeWordsOnly
>         self.components.chkMatchCase.checked = caseSensitive
>
>         print "init done"
>
>     def on_btnFindNext_mouseClick(self, target, event):
>         print "btnFindNext"
>         print self.components.fldFind.text
>         event.skip()
>
>     def on_btnCancel_mouseClick(self, target, event):
>         print "btnCancel"
>         event.skip()
>
> class Minimal(PythonCardPrototype.model.Background):
>
>     def on_btnFind_mouseClick(self, target, event):
>         dlg = FindDialog(self)
>         dlg.showModal()
>         print "fldFind", dlg.components.fldFind.text
>         print "chkMatchWholeWordOnly",
> dlg.components.chkMatchWholeWordOnly.checked
>         print "chkMatchCase", dlg.components.chkMatchCase.checked
>         print "FindDialog result:\naccepted: %s\nreturned: %s\n" %
> (dlg.accepted(), dlg.returned())
>         dlg.destroy()
>
>
> ---
>
> {'type':'GenericDialog',
>     #'file':'find.py',
>     'classname':'Find',
>     'name':'dlgFind',
>     'title':'Find dialog',
>     'position':(5, 5),
>     'size':(370, 120),
>     'components': [
>
> {'type':'StaticText',
>     'name':'stcFindWhat',
>     'position':(7, 10),
>     'text':'Find What:',
>     },
>
> {'type':'TextField',
>     'name':'fldFind',
>     'position':(70, 7),
>     'size':(195, -1),
>     },
>
> {'type':'Button',
>     'name':'btnFindNext',
>     'position':(280, 5),
>     'label':'Find Next',
>     'id':5100,
>     },
>
> {'type':'Button',
>     'name':'btnCancel',
>     'position':(280, 35),
>     'label':'Cancel',
>     'id':5101,
>     },
>
> {'type':'CheckBox',
>     'name':'chkMatchWholeWordOnly',
>     'position':(7, 35),
>     'label':'Match whole word only',
>     },
>
> {'type':'CheckBox',
>     'name':'chkMatchCase',
>     'position':(7, 55),
>     'label':'Match case',
>     },
>
> ] # end components
> } # end GenericDialog
>
>
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