On Jan 6, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Dr R.J.Appleton wrote:
> I have designed a dialog using the class designer, and am wanting
> to use
> it as a modal dialog from my app wizard created application.
>
> I have the following lines to create the dialog:
>
> frm = dabo.ui.createForm(filename)
> frm.Parent = app.MainForm
> frm.showModal()
>
> Unfortunately there are the following issues:
> 1) the dialog has its own copy of the DABO menus (it should have no
> menu
> bar)
To suppress a menu bar, in the form's initProperties method you can
either set the form's MenuBarClass to None, or set ShowMenuBar to False.
> 2) it does not block the main application
This is a shortcoming of wxPython. It has a MakeModal() method that
is supposed to do what its name implies, but it doesn't work.
According to Robin Dunn, the only way to get a modal window is to use
wx.Dialog, not wx.Frame.
We have plans to re-factor the form/dialog classes to make it
possible to instantiate the correct class on the fly, but it is not a
trivial matter to do so. Until then, you have to use dDialog or one
of its subclasses to create a modal form.
I should also note that I have tried to incorporate the dDialog
classes into the Class Designer with mixed results. Currently you can
only create dialogs in code.
-- Ed Leafe
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