In the form editor for the parent select style dialog. Or manually add
style dialog in the pc command. Showing a dialog form disables all other
forms until the dialog form is closed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Programming forum'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:56 PM
Subject: RE: [Jprogramming] wd 'wait' ineffectual in j6.01c
I don't find 'dialog' in the Index. I have a form, and I
want to stop processing while the user fills it in.
I can't use wd 'mbopen...' or wd 'mbsave...' or wd 'mb...'
if that's what you mean.
Henry Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Iverson
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:32 PM
To: Programming forum
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] wd 'wait' ineffectual in j6.01c
Can you not use a form with the dialog style to get your
answer? Or if
the question is simple enough a messagebox? Both dialog and
messagebox
disable all other forms and only events on the new form are allowed.
This is similar to, but much simpler and cleaner than wd'wait'.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Programming forum'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 9:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Jprogramming] wd 'wait' ineffectual in j6.01c
>I posted a workaround shortly after my initial post.
>
> And yes, I really have to have an answer to the question
> posed by the 'wait'ing form before my program can continue.
>
> Henry Rich
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Eric Iverson
>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 9:05 PM
>> To: Programming forum
>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] wd 'wait' ineffectual in j6.01c
>>
>> I will take a look at this. There is a conflict between focus
>> events and
>> wait. There may be a J wd coding workaround or it may require
>> changes at
>> the system level. I agree that this needs to be fixed, but
point out
>> that wait should be used only when absolutely necessary.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Henry Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "'Programming forum'" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:33 PM
>> Subject: [Jprogramming] wd 'wait' ineffectual in j6.01c
>>
>>
>> >I put up a form and issue wd 'wait', but J doesn't wait for
>> > an event on the form. Instead, it comes out of the wait with
>> > an event on another form.
>> >
>> >
>> > I display a form called 'scoreboard', and then I overlay it with
>> > a dialog that prompts for starting information, like so:
>> >
>> > wd NEWGAME
>> > wd 'set matchlist *',matchnames
>> > wd 'pshow'
>> > wd 'wait'
>> > res =: wd 'q'
>> > wd 'pclose'
>> >
>> > (the NEWGAME form is very simple and is given below)
>> >
>> > but the 'wait' is triggered immediately, and the variable 'res'
>> > is seen to be
>> >
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |syshandler |scoreboard_handler |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |sysevent |scoreboard_pict00_focuslost|
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |sysdefault |scoreboard_default |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |sysparent |scoreboard |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |syschild |pict00 |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |systype |focuslost |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |syslocale |base |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |syshwndp |220531754 |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |syshwndc |12717636 |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |sysfocus | |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> > |syslastfocus|pict00 |
>> > +------------+---------------------------+
>> >
>> > so you can see what happened: the wait was satisfied by an event
>> > on the scoreboard form, to wit the focuslost event. It's very
>> > repeatable and makes the wd 'wait' unusable.
>> >
>> > Henry Rich
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > NEWGAME=: 0 : 0
>> > pc newgame nomax nomin nosize;pn "Select Match, or CANCEL
>> to Create a
>> > Template";
>> > xywh 11 7 183 16;cc matchlist listbox;
>> > xywh 79 28 34 11;cc ok button;cn "OK";
>> > pas 6 6;pcenter;
>> > rem form end;
>> > )
>> >
>> >
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