Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

[Raymond Lyons]

When I use a Yes, No, Cancel message box, it pauses my autoexec script until the user clicks soemthing. I want options other than yes, no and cancel, so I made a dialog form and inserted the following code (actually more but the rest is not relevant) in my autoexec script:

:form.view("Start_Form","dialog")
Start_Form.close()

If I just run this as a test within the application, it works as expected, opening the form and not moving on until the user selects one of the form's options. However, when run as the opening application's autoexec script it opens the form but does not pause--it just immediately closes it.

I hope this is not a bug and someone can just explain how to accomplish what I am trying to do.

I am using 1410-1036.

Ray Lyons

[drgarytraub]

RE: Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

Hi Ray,

I have not tried the form.view method in autoexec, so it may or may not be a bug. But I do use the following method in my autoexec, and it works just like you want it to:

dim f as p
f=form.load("Login_Screen")
f.window_position("center","center")
f.activate()

Hope this helps.

Gary

[drgarytraub]

RE: Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

Also, I just tested my script as a dialog, and it DOES NOT work as expected (within autoexec). So try the way I am describing. Good luck.

Gary

[Peter.Wayne]

RE: Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

Try using script_play("your_startup_script") in your autoexec to see if that works.
If not, use an xdialog box instead of a dialog form. That works for me.

[Raymond Lyons]

RE: Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

Gary, thanks, but for some reason your method does not pause my autoexec. It just keeps going like that damn rabbit on TV!

Ray

[Raymond Lyons]

RE: Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

Peter,

Script_play does not pause my autoexec (nor does Gary suggestion).

An xdialog box does work. Bur I have two questions in that regard:

1. Is there any way to disable the X in the upper right corner as a way of exiting?

2. I know how to put some spaces (;s) between xdialog buttons placed vertically. Is there a way to put some space between such buttons when they are placed horizontally (side by side)? I don't like buttons to be right next to one another the way they are in my xdialog, and I would prefer that they be placed horizontally. I have tried everything I can think of--not that that means much!

Now for an aside for Slewyn if he ever sees this: I have had numerous occassions when all I needed was a message box like the Yes, No, Cancel option (i.e., just 3 choices for the user) but I want the labels to be something other than Yes, No and Cancel (such as Import, Print and View Old Records for an autoexec--I won't go into the details of those 3). This could all be done if we had control of the button labels in ui_msg_box(). Seems like this would be easy.

Ray

[JerryBrightbill]

RE: Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

Ray

Here is an xdialog that does what you want

DIM v as C
DIM SHARED varC_result as C
ok_button_label = "&OK"
cancel_button_label = "&Cancel"
v = "Information Line"

varC_result = ui_dlg_box("Alpha Five",{sp=4}
{endregion};
%dlg%,

[Raymond Lyons]

RE: Pausing Autoexec with a dialog form?

Thanks Jerry, your help did the trick. For anyone's information (in case they want soenthing simliar) I want the user to have to click only one time, not option X and then OK. With that in mind, the basics of what I want follows (though I can never remember how long lines work on this board):

heading_string = ""
ui_dlg_box("Import Options",{sp=4}
{sp=4}

{endregion};
;
;
;
;
;
;
%dlg%,