On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Uwe Grauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I do believe we had a thread on this a couple of months ago that coincided with the discussions on making the dropdown list support choices from a database through properties. I would like to see this happen and in addition automatically pass the registered bizobjs from the form to the dialog. For now, I think the best solution is to pass the bizobj references through the __init__ function on the dialog. Remember to call super. Data changes are passed back out through the bizobjs. Nate L. _______________________________________________ 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]
