Paul McNett wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > >> I played around with the dlg.show() line, and I think the behavior was >> because in the original, the extra show was redundant. Somehow, the "self" >> parameter in >> >> dabo.ui.createForm("findRun3.cdxml", self) >> >> >> caused the show to be true, and so the next line was redundant. Doesn't >> seem to matter what the third (parent) parameter is. >> > > You are right, self would have evaluated to a boolean True, so what was > happening was the dialog was being shown after being created, and then > your show() line was being called again, and then the dialog was being > released. > > >> BTW, we've been trying to figure how to use functions based on the way >> they are presented in the API documentation. I'm a bit confused. When the >> docs >> say, for example, >> >> createForm(srcFile, show=False, *args, **kwargs) >> >> looks like the show parameter can be passed either as "True" or as >> "show=True". >> > > Correct. Python has positional and keyword arguments, and either can > have default values. The act of giving a default value makes it have > both positional and keyword argument behavior. > > So, show is the second argument (argument number 1, given python's > zero-based indexing). If you don't pass a second argument, show will get > the default value of False. > > >> and how would we know from the documentation, that a third parameter could >> be "parent=self"? >> > > You wouldn't. This createForm() function simply passes any additional > positional (*args) and keyword (**args) arguments up to the constructor > of the class, which accepts all kinds of arguments depending on the > class in question. > > So, you'd have to know that the dialog class (and all dabo ui classes) > accept a parent argument. Once you've used Dabo for a while, you know > this implicitly. > What other common arguments do Dabo ui classes accept? Or where can I find them? Thx.
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