Re: OPO v2.0 Question: Closing modal window

From: Phil Herring <revdoc_at_uow.edu.au>
Date: 1997/09/17
Message-ID: <5vnehv$1e3$1_at_wyrm.its.uow.edu.au>#1/1

In article <341D76B4.4EA2_at_zg.tel.hr> Goran Jemric, goran.jemric_at_zg.tel.hr writes:
>I have a problem using OPO v2.02 (32 and 16 bit).
>I open a modal form from a parent form (to use it
>for a list of values). When user selects value I close
>the modal form and go back transffering value through
>application properties. If I close the modal form
>with CloseWindow() method everything is OK but my
>parent form appeares to have no standard toolbar
>and menus.

Don't use CloseWindow() to close a modal window - as you have discovered, it will screw things up. If you're using a modal window in the standard fashion, you'll have one or two buttons (usually "OK" and "Cancel", in whatever language you're using) that close the window. For each of these buttons:

1. Set their IsDismissButton properties to TRUE.
2. In their Click() methods, do whatever processing you need to do. (Usually, either a commit or rollback.)
3. End the Click() methods with a call to Inherited.Click() to dismiss the window.
4. To open the modal window, just call frmYourFormName.OpenModal(FALSE) The modal window will dismiss itself - don't try to close it after the call to OpenModal returns.

That's all there is to it.

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Received on Wed Sep 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST