XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

[Mike Wilson]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

Ton,
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but what you wrote did not clarify anything for me. If the dialog is not modeless then it's modal, and when the dialog is open there is nothing happening anywhere other than with that dialog until it is closed. You wrote that the dialog is already open and there is entry happening in an entry form to generate a variable for the textbox of the dialog that is already open... but it is not a modeless dialog. None of that fits together within the realm of possibility.

[Ton Spies]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

....then you can use the controls change/killfocus event to validate.

Hi Mark,

You are right that's the place. I looked for a faster but not existing way.
Thanks.

Ton

[Ton Spies]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

Ton,
Rather than trying to use a variable in a control, why not just use {condition=} to show 2 different versions of the control?

Hi Peter

I have tried that before but always there was a blank line.
But {start_pos} does the trick!

Thank you


Ton

[Ton Spies]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

Hi Mike,

... and when the dialog is open there is nothing happening anywhere other than with that dialog until it is closed.

You wrote that the dialog is already open and there is entry happening in an entry form to generate a variable for the textbox of the dialog that is already open... but it is not a modeless dialog. None of that fits together within the realm of possibility.

I have to learn to cope XDialog by experience and with discussions.
Creativity comes after the Rules. And XDialog is a little bit tricky.
Thanks for your usefull comments.

Ton

[G Gabriel]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

There is a function in alpha that should do exactly what you want:
ui_dlg_dom()

But...and unfortunately, it doesn't work!
I sent an email to Selwyn couple years agao regarding this function and, while highly un-characteristic of Selwyn, didn't not receive an answer. I assumed either the email got lost in the shuffle or perhaps alpha is doing away with this function in favor of others.

Try and see if it works in v10.
If not:
a-Hello Selwyn,
or
b-I have several other work-arounds.

[Tbaker]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

Ton and Gabe

Just for the record look here from the WIKI

Seems this is not supported in Version 8 and above

http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/UI_DLG_DOM+Function

Tom Baker

[G Gabriel]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

Darn, the DOM doesn't work!
Will send another email to Selwyn.
There are many other ways to accomplish this, e.g. {embedded}, evaluating a variable in one xdlg in another xdlg, etc. but I am hoping to get the DOM thing to work.

[G Gabriel]

Re: XDialog: How to use a variable in a textbox

Per Selwyn:

it is possible that it is a bug. but if so, it is not something we are likely to fix.

the dlg_dom() is not a technology we are perusing. at one point we we going to change the internal object model of xdialog, but that fell off the radar when we started integrating html into a5 more fully.

the html dom is so much more complete and richer than any xdialog dom would ever be.

My guess was correct that DOM was something alpha was trying to get away from.
By the way, HTML is one of the ideas I had in mind, BUT, whatever I did with it was done in v8 and the code is more awkward (I would assume) than if you'd do it in v10. From what I read albeit very little, I know that v10 has much easier code to deal with HTML.
If you are avert to HTML, as I said earlier it could be done in many other ways.