Bill,
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:33 AM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Brian Schott wrote:
>> Ric's code includes a similar phrase, but it does not work for me in
>> the way I prefer (on my Mac) with keystrokes.
>
> you may try add closeok style to the parent form because it does not
> require cleanup for this particular case.
>
> pc display closeok dialog;
>
> In window it closes by pressing ESC, not sure if Mac also called it
> ESC.
>
Adding closeok to the pc display had no effect on my Mac.
>>
>> Another problem for me is that the wdget does not seem to work for me
>> on my Mac. I get the following error upon loading the script.
>>
>> |index error: wdget
>> | vls {~nms i.,&.>x
>
> sidx=. {. 2 4 5 6 2 {~ I. 99".> RBFORMAT wdget wd'qd'
Yes, changing the sidx value changed the error message. And that error
message does not occur if a string is supplied for display '<j code>'
as you suggest below.
>
> That error occurs because wdq is assigned by wdhandler when some event
> happened, but during startup there is not yet any event so wdq is not
> defined (or may be it is from the previous run). the wd'qd' command
> is query parent form data.
>
> I found that calling display '' will cause error as suggested by the
> last line of the script, it is mandatory to supply some string to
> display when calling .
>
> I also suggest to force use graphic box drawing, otherwise the tree
> format for tacit forms such as ++- will be difficult to read.
>
> This is a nice exercise of gui programming.
>
> --
Thanks,
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(B=)
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