[changed to dabo-dev for my comments]

Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Mike Mabey wrote:
> 
>> On the wiki <http://dabodev.com/wiki/ 
>> HowToReturnAValueFromAModalForm> on How
>> To Return A Value From A Modal Form, the last update says that  
>> wxPython
>> still doesn't support forms modally yet.  Is this still the case?   
>> And if
>> so, is there a way to work around this so as to use a form (which  
>> has bizobj
>> capabilities) as a spawned dialog-type box and still be able to  
>> return a
>> value to the calling app?
> 
>       No, unfortunately this ability has not been added. When we started  
> with wxPython several years ago, there was a hope that this was going  
> to be changed sooner rather than later, so we wrote the classes in  
> anticipation of supporting that feature. But now it looks as though it  
> is unlikely to ever happen.
> 
>       It's certainly possible to do what you ask, but not as simple as with  
> a regular form, with its built-in data awareness. What do you need to  
> do exactly? Perhaps we could come up with an alternative approach that  
> would be easier to implement.

All we need to do is abstract the data-aware stuff from dForm into some 
abstract mixin that we can combine with dForm, dDialog, or any other 
container. I meant to do this years ago but never got around to it. 
There's a ticket for it. I don't think it'll be hard, but could be tedious.

Paul



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