Re[4]: [wxperl-users] Simple Messagebox . . . Take 2

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:44:43 -0900  "Everett, Toby" <TEverett@ALASCOM.ATT.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From:        Mattia Barbon [mailto:mb...@ds...]
> Sent:        Saturday, December 07, 2002 4:07 AM
> To:        'DH'; 'wxp...@li...'; Everett, Toby
> Subject:        Re[2]: [wxperl-users] Simple Messagebox . . . Take 2
> 
> > No, it is designed to be used as a modal dialog.
> Given that, is there a way to ask for a feature to be added that would
> let
> the programmer request that the dialog be brought to the foreground when
> "ShowModal" is called?  I realize that this is probably more of a Wx
> feature
> request than a wxPerl feature 
  Yes, you should direct it to wx-...@li...

> . . .  In my situation, I'm using Wx to
> throw
> up GUI error messages from a script that normally doesn't have a GUI
> (it's a
> shim for opening pipe-delimited files with Excel - it automatically
> starts
> Excel, connects to it using Win32::OLE, and then uses
> Workbooks::OpenText to
> open the file properly).  Normally it runs silently without a console
> window
> as a result of the associations in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, but I needed a way
> to
> throw up error messages, and this works.  Except that if the user
> switches
> to another window while it's running, it pops up the error messages
> behind
> everything else, and so they probably won't notice them (the only sign
> is an
> entry on the TaskBar).  Thoughts?
  I can't remember how to do it, sorry. (I know this is a rahter useless response...)

Regards
Mattia