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    Activate event not triggering for Dialog form?

    I have a form(form1) that opens another form(form2) as dialog ..... i placed a message dialog box in Activate event for form .... the event never kicks off. Is it true that the Activate event doesnt trigger for dialogs or is this a bug that I should report?

    Glenn

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    Re: Activate event not triggering for Dialog form?

    Glenn,
    You have two dialogs listed to fire, the form as dialog and the message as a dialog. Dialogs stop scripts from continuing until they are closed and so are by default sequential. One initiates, then after the close of that the next will. Is that the way they exist?
    Mike W
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      Re: Activate event not triggering for Dialog form?

      Glenn,
      I might have read your post incorrectly. If the second dialog message to fire is on the form2 that is being opened as a dialog, to get the message to fire on opening, place the message on the Init form event. It will howeve appear before the Form2 appears.

      A work around is place a button (some object) on the form with the dbx message as an OnArrive event and have this object the first activated using the Arrange menu option. This will fire the message when the form opens as a dialog. I tried HotSpot, but that isn't recognized as an object. Good Luck.
      Mike W
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        Re: Activate event not triggering for Dialog form?

        Mike,
        Button idea is a nice work-around. Before you responded, I had already coded up an oncondition() that would execute 1 second after init .... basically doing my own onactivate event. I put the commands I would have normally put in the onactivate event into the oncondition() function with a code block. By the way, I didnt make this up ..... saw as example somewhere(cant remember where).

        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
        ' set timer to current time plus 1 second
        vseconds = toseconds(time()) + 1

        ' set code block to xbasic commands to be executed oncondition
        code = <<%code%
        xbasic commands
        %code%

        ' set condition
        oncondition("toseconds(time()) >= "+str(vseconds), code)
        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

        Oncondition is a cool function ..... allows you to set up xbasic commands that execute after the script or event.

        Have fun and thanks again!!

        Glenn

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          Re: Activate event not triggering for Dialog form?

          Glenn,
          Thanks for sharing that, I like it! BTW, it is on_condition().
          Mike W
          __________________________
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            Re: Activate event not triggering for Dialog form?

            for a form opened as a dialog, you use the oninit event
            or you can also do this

            f=form.load("someform","dialog")
            f:button5.push() 'a hidden button
            f.show()
            'do not put f.activate()
            f.close()
            Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
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              Re: Activate event not triggering for Dialog form?

              I just put an on_condition() into the onFetch event of a form to ensure a displayed image is sized correctly... after the form gets loaded and the image is displayed. It was my last minor irritation for my application. Even though the commands were in place to resize the image it seems everything was happening so fast that the resize didn't always get done... most of the time, but not always. Using the code above I set my time + .25 and all is good. 6 years after the post and your solution solved my last issue. Thanks. David

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