Paul McNett wrote: > [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
This would be a very nice addition. +1 for this outstanding feature. Uwe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-dev This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
