Hi David, I believe the issue involves whether this is a "modal" or "modeless" dialog. I don't think I ever covered this in one of my classes (sorry about that chief!).
I believe the default is "modal", which means your app stops all processing when it hits the use of the Dialog() function, and picks back up when the dialog is closed. This isn't quite true, but the sub/function which uses the Dialog() command does indeed stop processing at this line until the dialog is closed for modal dialogs. More important to you, when using a modal dialog, no value is returned by the Dialog() function to go into your variable "MyDialog" because processing has stopped; so it's always set to "nothing", and when you test on it later, even when the dialog is open, this is what it will contain. To make this work the way you want, I think you just need to go into the XML properties for the dialog and set "modal" to "no" (making it a modeless dialog), and remove the line at the end of the sub which sets MyDialog back to nothing (actually move it into your dialog handler, when the dialog is closing, so the global variable doesn't get set back to nothing until the dialog is closed). Below is the documentation for the modal property, but I believe it may be incorrect when it says that "no" is the default value. Chip ---- modal Specifies whether the dialog must be closed before interacting with the calling application (i.e. a modal dialog) or whether the application can receive user input even when the dialog is open (i.e. a modeless dialog). Available options: Yes, No (default). -----Original Message----- From: Scripting [mailto:scripting-bounces+lists3717=comcast....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of David via Scripting Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 9:12 PM To: GWScripting Subject: Single Instance Dialog Issue Got a challenge here. I want to make sure only ONE instance of my dialog will be open, at any given time. The user will open the dialog with the Hotkey Win-c. But even if he tabs away from the dialog, and then once again hit Win-C, he should land in the already open dialog; not in a brand new window. Just like, when you hit the Ctrl-Backslash, you always land in one and same instance of the Window-Eyes Controlpanel. Below you will find the cut-out of my code, that has to do with the opening of the dialog. In my Opening sub, I do the lines: MyDialog.window.Activate MyDialog.window.Focus But even this does not seem to fix my issue. I am all learning ears, to any feedback you may have, or any good practice that you may want to share on this part. Thanks to all, ---Snip-it: Sub HK1(myKeyId) 'This routine is called when the hotkey Alt-Windows-C is pressed. If Keyboard.KeyDescriberActive Then Speak myStrings(myKeyId & "_Description") Else 'Main routine functionality goes here Queue "OpenMyAppWin" End IfKeyboard.KeyDescriberActive. End Sub 'HK1. Sub OpenMyAppWin() Dim MyDialog: Set MyDialog = Nothing ' Bring up the dialog: If MyDialog Is Nothing Then Set MyDialog = Dialog( myXMLFile, "MyAppMainDialog", "EHMainDialog") Else MyDialog.window.Activate MyDialog.window.Focus End If 'MyDialog Is Nothing. ' Room Cleaning: Set MyDialog = Nothing End Sub 'OpenMyAppWin. Function EHMainDialog( dObj, dEvent, dId, dControl) Blah-blah-blah... End Function 'EHMainDialog. ---End Of Snip. -- David _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/lists3717 %40comcast.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com
