Xdialog {Title=}

[MoGrace]

I can't seem to get this command to work with a variable. Does anyone know how I might get it to display the contents of a variable?
I would like to have a short name for the dlg_title but display a longer name from a calculation in the xd title bar.

The documentation for this command {title} doesn't address this possibility.

Eg, if {can_exit=close} creates an event where if a_dlg_button = "close", etc.; then I am thinking a similar event might be created where this title could be constructed(?) So far that's my best idea...perhaps using a __placeholder__ and a strtran() function?

Tim Kiebert: where are you? ;)

[Tom Henkel]

Re: Xdialog {Title=}

Robin,

We maintain a Global variable of our agency name in a variable called (remarkably) "agency".

When I create an xdialog, I just put the variable into the "title" spot on the dialog.

varC_result3 = ui_dlg_box(agency,<<%dlg%

This way, if we need to go to a specific field in the dialog from the code, we just use the variable without having to spell the whole thing out.

	ui_dlg_ctl_goto(agency,"vOLD")

I was just looking at the help, and I don't see any {Title=} command. Maybe I'm just getting old...

Even trying to put it into an existing xdialog, I didn't get any auto complete for {Title=.

To

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Xdialog {Title=}

I followed your link to {Title} but all I find is....

It is possible to dynamically change the title of an Xdialog. First, we use indirection to title the dialog box "Fred".
title_var_name = "title_var" + stritran(time(), ":", "_")
eval(title_var_name) = "Fred"
dlg_title = "@=" + title_var_name
ui_modeless_dlg_box(dlg_title, "Hello {text=50,2}", "1=1")




Then we use the EVAL()and UI_MODELESS_DLG_REFRESH()functions to rename it.

eval(title_var_name) = "George"
ui_modeless_dlg_refresh("@=" + title_var_name)




You cannot close the dialog with either "Fred" or "George". You must use "@=" + title_var_name.

ui_modeless_dlg_close("@=" + title_var_name)

[MoGrace]

Re: Xdialog {Title=}

Stan - Where did you find that? Here is what I see:

{Title} Command

The {title} command lets you set the title of a dialog independently of the value set in ui_dlg_box(), or ui_modeless_dlg_box() command.

ui_dlg_box("Title",<<%dlg%
{title=Title set by 'Title' command}
{lf};
Name: [.60name];
%dlg%)

Edit: Come to think of it I have seen the code you're showing before - but it is to dynamically change the actual dialog title, not show a different caption - which is what the {Title=} is for that I was trying to use. However that "@="+var trick might work here too...

[MoGrace]

Re: Xdialog {Title=}

Got it!
Borrowed from another thread:

dlg_title = "cp_info"
vTitle = file.filename_parse(a5.Get_Name(),"n") +" : Tables, Indexes & Fields"

in the dialog body:
{title=__vTitle__}

Before you call the dlg_box:
dlg_body = strtran(dlg_body,"__vTitle__",vTitle)

ui_modeless_dlg_box(dlg_title,dlg_body,dlg_code)

I swear I already tried that...

[Al Buchholz]

Re: Xdialog {Title=}

I swear I already tried that...

Don't swear, you are much too intelligent for that.

Leave that for urchins like me......