Happy New Year David,
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 10:27 PM, David Vaughan wrote:
In normal use there is no significant difference between having it modal or modeless but the latter is a slight advantage to me where the user can pause to adjust something else, affecting a calculated field, before completing the dialog fields....and I assume that pause would be the one that "refreshes" (ouch! I'm really show my age with that one!)
Seriously though, that's an interesting variation on my tried and true technique. I've never used a modeless dialog so I'm not sure, but isn't there a "danger" of the dialog getting "lost" behind the main window by the inexperienced user (Hey! Where'd that thing go?).
If you want the user to be able to "adjust" one or more previously filled field, you could easily create your own "ask" dialog which includes a pair of browser style navigation ("Prev", "Next") buttons which could be used to backtrack modal dialogs. One could also include an "exit" button which would allow the user to exit the dialog sequence while giving the user a warning dialog that the required data entry sequence was not completed and, "would you care to try again?" (Actually, I've never before thought about such a custom "ask" dialog, but now having done so, it seems pretty cool - so it's now on my to-do-list)
Being able to easily create such custom dialogs is one of the things I REALLY like about RunRev.
Regards,
Alan
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