Paul McNett wrote:
> Uwe Grauer wrote:
>> Paul McNett wrote:
>>> Uwe Grauer wrote:
>>>> Which event is best to use if a Form gets called (shown)?
>>>> Is it onActivate or is there something better?
>>>> I asking to find a better place to initialize my called form with the
>>>> parameters which got set from the parentform.
>>> onActivate will get called whenever the form (re)takes the focus. So if
>>> you use that you should set a flag so that you don't call the same init
>>> code over and over again.
>>>
>> I do this now, with a flag.
>>
>>> You can also try overriding afterInit() or afterInitAll(), which are
>>> hook methods that get called rather late in the init cycle.
>>>
>> Overriding?
>> I thought that afterInit[All] is called after the createForm.
>>
>> This is called to show a childform:
>> def callEditEtyp(self, newrec=False):
>> frmclass = "EditEtyp.cdxml"
>> frm = dabo.ui.createForm(frmclass)
>> frm.parentform = self
>> if newrec:
>> frm.newrec = True
>> frm.etypiid = None
>> else:
>> frm.newrec = False
>> currow = self.dGridEtyp.CurrentRow
>> curiid = self.PrimaryBizobj.getDataSet(rowStart=currow,
>> rows=1)[0]['iid']
>> frm.etypiid = curiid
>> self.hide()
>> frm.showModal()
>>
>> May i ask some more on how to do it when i come back from my childform?
>
> You know, you are basically wanting to set properties on your child form
> from the main form, so the best way in your case may be to define
> properties in the child form, and then just pass those properties to the
> constructor. For example:
>
> class ChildForm(dabo.ui.dForm):
> def _getNewRec(self):
> return getattr(self, "_newRec", None)
> def _setNewRec(self, val):
> self._newRec = bool(val)
> NewRec = property(_getNewRec, _setNewRec)
>
> class MainForm(dabo.ui.dForm):
> ...
> def callEditEtyp(self, newrec=False):
> frmclass = "EditEtyp.cdxml"
> frm = dabo.ui.createForm(frmclass, NewRec=newrec)
> ...
> self.hide()
> frm.showModal()
>
>
Ok, will do.
Now what's best if i come back from my childform?
This is called to leave a childform:
def onHit(self, evt): # btnSave
self.Form.save()
parent = self.Form.parentform
parent.dorecquery = True
parent.show()
self.Form.close()
Uwe
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