Exiting a DialogBox created with FoxGUIb

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Dear All

I am new to FOX and FoxGUIb. I have found FoxGUIb very
useful and I have created an application with menus,
one of which calls a DialogBox for the user to enter
some values. After finishing the user will press OK to
save data.

Unfortunately I don’t know how to let the
DialogBox know tha tonce the OK button is pressed it
should exit. It seems I need to send message ID_ACCEPT
to some recipient (not sure which) when the button OK
is clicked? But no idea how to do that with the code
that is generated by FoxGUIb as the button is created
in a different way to what I have seen in the examples
in the web, and I have no idea how to relate them (
I'm afraid I haven't really understood the FXButton
API)

The dialog box examples I have seen do something like
the following:

   # Accept
    accept = FXButton.new(buttons, "&Accept", nil,
self, ID_ACCEPT,
FRAME_RAISED|FRAME_THICK|LAYOUT_RIGHT|LAYOUT_CENTER_Y)

However the FoxGUIb creates a button doing:

FX::Button.new(@verticalframe7){|w|
                @button_ok=w
                w.wdg_name='button_ok'
                w.text="Ok"
                w.width=21
                w.y=4
                w.height=21
                w.layoutHints=40
                w.x=26
                w.selector=FX::DialogBox::ID_QUIT

                @button_ok.connect(Fox::SEL_COMMAND){
                            lat = textfield_lat.text
                            lon = textfield_lon.text
                            heading
=textfield_heading.text
                                                #How
do I indicate that I want to accept and exit?:?
                                                      
                }
}

So in this last example, how do I exit the dialog when
button is clicked?

Thanks very much for your help
Eduardo

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Dear All

I am new to FOX and FoxGUIb. I have found FoxGUIb very
useful and I have created an application with menus,
one of which calls a DialogBox for the user to enter
some values. After finishing the user will press OK to
save data.

Unfortunately I don't know how to let the
DialogBox know tha tonce the OK button is pressed it
should exit. It seems I need to send message ID_ACCEPT
to some recipient (not sure which) when the button OK
is clicked? But no idea how to do that with the code
that is generated by FoxGUIb as the button is created
in a different way to what I have seen in the examples
in the web, and I have no idea how to relate them (
I'm afraid I haven't really understood the FXButton
API)

me neither :wink: ... there are some very hackish things that make the use
of fox toolkit not as easy as it could be.

The dialog box examples I have seen do something like
the following:

   # Accept
    accept = FXButton.new(buttons, "&Accept", nil,
self, ID_ACCEPT,
FRAME_RAISED|FRAME_THICK|LAYOUT_RIGHT|LAYOUT_CENTER_Y)

However the FoxGUIb creates a button doing:

FX::Button.new(@verticalframe7){|w|
                @button_ok=w
                w.wdg_name='button_ok'
                w.text="Ok"
                w.width=21
                w.y=4
                w.height=21
                w.layoutHints=40
                w.x=26
                w.selector=FX::DialogBox::ID_QUIT

                @button_ok.connect(Fox::SEL_COMMAND){
                            lat = textfield_lat.text
                            lon = textfield_lon.text
                            heading
=textfield_heading.text
                                                #How
do I indicate that I want to accept and exit?:?

                }
}

So in this last example, how do I exit the dialog when
button is clicked?

the most simple aproach would be like this:
@button_ok.connect(Fox::SEL_COMMAND){
   ....
   @topwin.hide() # assuming that @topwin is the name of the dialogbox
}

however if your dialog box has been run modal this will not work. the
dialog box disappears but is still modal. in this case you have to
send an ID_ACCEPT message to @topwin like this:

@topwin.handle(@button, FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,
Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT), nil)

hope this helps,
-- meinrad (henon)

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Thanks very much for your help
Eduardo

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Hi Meinrad,
Thank you very much for your help.
Where would i put the message handler:
  @topwin.handle(@button,
FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT),
nil)
Would i put it inside the button_ok.connect method?

FX::Button.new(@verticalframe7){|w|
                 @button_ok=w
                 w.wdg_name='button_ok'
                 w.text="Ok"
                 w.width=21
                 w.y=4
                 w.height=21
                 w.layoutHints=40
                 w.x=26
                 w.selector=FX::DialogBox::ID_QUIT

                 @button_ok.connect(Fox::SEL_COMMAND){
                 lat = textfield_lat.text
                 lon = textfield_lon.text
                 heading =textfield_heading.text
                 @topwin.handle(@button,
FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT),
nil)
        }
  }

Thanks again!
Eduardo

> Dear All
>
> I am new to FOX and FoxGUIb. I have found FoxGUIb
very
> useful and I have created an application with
menus,
> one of which calls a DialogBox for the user to
enter
> some values. After finishing the user will press
OK to
> save data.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know how to let the
> DialogBox know tha tonce the OK button is pressed
it
> should exit. It seems I need to send message
ID_ACCEPT
> to some recipient (not sure which) when the button
OK
> is clicked? But no idea how to do that with the
code
> that is generated by FoxGUIb as the button is
created
> in a different way to what I have seen in the
examples
> in the web, and I have no idea how to relate them
(
> I'm afraid I haven't really understood the
FXButton
> API)

me neither :wink: ... there are some very hackish things
that make the use
of fox toolkit not as easy as it could be.

>
> The dialog box examples I have seen do something
like
> the following:
>
> # Accept
> accept = FXButton.new(buttons, "&Accept", nil,
> self, ID_ACCEPT,
>

FRAME_RAISED|FRAME_THICK|LAYOUT_RIGHT|LAYOUT_CENTER_Y)

···

--- Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/8/06, e aldaz <ardhazes@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> However the FoxGUIb creates a button doing:
>
> FX::Button.new(@verticalframe7){|w|
> @button_ok=w
> w.wdg_name='button_ok'
> w.text="Ok"
> w.width=21
> w.y=4
> w.height=21
> w.layoutHints=40
> w.x=26
> w.selector=FX::DialogBox::ID_QUIT
>
>
@button_ok.connect(Fox::SEL_COMMAND){
> lat =
textfield_lat.text
> lon =
textfield_lon.text
> heading
> =textfield_heading.text
>
#How
> do I indicate that I want to accept and exit?:?
>
> }
> }
>
> So in this last example, how do I exit the dialog
when
> button is clicked?

the most simple aproach would be like this:
@button_ok.connect(Fox::SEL_COMMAND){
   ....
   @topwin.hide() # assuming that @topwin is the
name of the dialogbox
}

however if your dialog box has been run modal this
will not work. the
dialog box disappears but is still modal. in this
case you have to
send an ID_ACCEPT message to @topwin like this:

@topwin.handle(@button, FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,
Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT), nil)

hope this helps,
-- meinrad (henon)
>
> Thanks very much for your help
> Eduardo
>

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Hi Meinrad

I have included the call you mentioned in the funcion
connect and i get the error:

@topwin.handle(@button, FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,
Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT), nil)

undefined method `FXSEL' for #<DialogBox:0x7f5e230>

I have also seen mention of using something like:
  getApp().stopModal(@topwin, 1)
  @topwin.hide
But didn't work for me either
I have included all the code created by the FoxGUIb,
hoping it could make things clearer.

Thanks again !
Eduardo

# source generated by foxGUIb 0.7.1

class DialogBox
  def initialize( parent)
    construct_widget_tree( parent)
    init if respond_to? 'init'
  end
  
  def construct_widget_tree( parent)
    @topwin=
    FX::DialogBox.new(parent){|w|
      @dialogBox=w
      w.wdg_name='dialogBox'
      w.width=137
      w.shown=true
      w.y=472
      w.height=125
      w.title="TrackerPod Data"
      w.x=-543
      FX::HorizontalFrame.new(@dialogBox){|w|
        @horizontalframe3=w
        w.wdg_name='horizontalframe3'
        w.width=137
        w.height=30
        w.layoutHints=1536
        FX::Label.new(@horizontalframe3){|w|
          @label_dialog_title=w
          w.wdg_name='label_dialog_title'
          w.text="TRACKER POD DATA:"
        
w.font=FX::Font.new.from_s('Tahoma|100|70|5|0|0|0').to_FXFont
          w.width=137
          w.y=5
          w.height=20
          w.layoutHints=40
        }
      }
      FX::HorizontalFrame.new(@dialogBox){|w|
        @horizontalframe2=w
        w.wdg_name='horizontalframe2'
        w.width=137
        w.y=34
        w.height=57
        w.layoutHints=1024
        FX::VerticalFrame.new(@horizontalframe2){|w|
          @verticalframe4=w
          w.wdg_name='verticalframe4'
          w.width=56
          w.height=57
          FX::Label.new(@verticalframe4){|w|
            @label_lat=w
            w.wdg_name='label_lat'
            w.text="Lat:"
            w.width=23
            w.height=17
          }
          FX::Label.new(@verticalframe4){|w|
            @label_lon=w
            w.wdg_name='label_lon'
            w.text="Lon:"
            w.width=25
            w.y=17
            w.height=17
          }
          FX::Label.new(@verticalframe4){|w|
            @label_heading=w
            w.wdg_name='label_heading'
            w.text="Heading:"
            w.width=47
            w.y=34
            w.height=17
          }
        }
        FX::VerticalFrame.new(@horizontalframe2){|w|
          @verticalframe6=w
          w.wdg_name='verticalframe6'
          w.width=81
          w.height=57
          w.x=56
          FX::TextField.new(@verticalframe6){|w|
            @textfield_lat=w
            w.wdg_name='textfield_lat'
            w.width=66
            w.height=19
            w.numColumns=10
          }
          FX::TextField.new(@verticalframe6){|w|
            @textfield_lon=w
            w.wdg_name='textfield_lon'
            w.width=66
            w.y=19
            w.height=19
            w.numColumns=10
          }
          FX::TextField.new(@verticalframe6){|w|
            @textfield_heading=w
            w.wdg_name='textfield_heading'
            w.width=66
            w.y=38
            w.height=19
            w.numColumns=10
          }
        }
      }
      FX::HorizontalFrame.new(@dialogBox){|w|
        @horizontalframe4=w
        w.wdg_name='horizontalframe4'
        w.width=137
        w.y=95
        w.height=30
        w.layoutHints=3584
        FX::VerticalFrame.new(@horizontalframe4){|w|
          @verticalframe7=w
          w.wdg_name='verticalframe7'
          w.width=47
          w.height=30
          FX::Button.new(@verticalframe7){|w|
            @button_ok=w
            w.wdg_name='button_ok'
            w.text="Ok"
            w.width=21
            w.y=4
            w.height=21
            w.layoutHints=40
            w.x=13
            @button_ok.connect(Fox::SEL_COMMAND){
              lat = textfield_lat.text
              lon = textfield_lon.text
              heading = textfield_heading.text
              #No idea how to close the window. something
about ID_ACCEPT
            
#@topwin.handle(nil,MKUINT(w::ID_ACCEPT,SEL_COMMAND),nil)
              #@topwin.handle(@button_ok,
FXINT(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT),
nil)
              
@topwin.handle(@button_ok,
FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT),
nil)
              #getApp().stopModal(@topwin, 1)
              #@topwin.hide

            }
          }
        }
        FX::VerticalFrame.new(@horizontalframe4){|w|
          @verticalframe9=w
          w.wdg_name='verticalframe9'
          w.width=90
          w.height=30
          w.x=47
          FX::Button.new(@verticalframe9){|w|
            @button_cancel=w
            w.wdg_name='button_cancel'
            w.text="Cancel"
            w.width=40
            w.y=4
            w.height=21
            w.layoutHints=40
            w.x=25
          }
        }
      }
    }
  end
  attr_reader :topwin
  attr_reader :dialogBox
  attr_reader :horizontalframe3
  attr_reader :label_dialog_title
  attr_reader :horizontalframe2
  attr_reader :verticalframe4
  attr_reader :label_lat
  attr_reader :label_lon
  attr_reader :label_heading
  attr_reader :verticalframe6
  attr_reader :textfield_lat
  attr_reader :textfield_lon
  attr_reader :textfield_heading
  attr_reader :horizontalframe4
  attr_reader :verticalframe7
  attr_reader :button_ok
  attr_reader :verticalframe9
  attr_reader :button_cancel
end

#unit test
if __FILE__==$0
  require 'libGUIb16'
  app=FX::App.new
  w=DialogBox.new app
  w.topwin.show(Fox::PLACEMENT_SCREEN)
  app.create
  app.run
end

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yeah, sorry, i forgot to prefix FXSEL with Fox:: like this:

@topwin.handle(@button_ok,
Fox::FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT), nil)

-- meinrad

···

On 12/9/06, e aldaz <ardhazes@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Meinrad

I have included the call you mentioned in the funcion
connect and i get the error:

@topwin.handle(@button, FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,
Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT), nil)

undefined method `FXSEL' for #<DialogBox:0x7f5e230>

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Meinrad, it works perfectly, thank you very much

> Hi Meinrad
>
> I have included the call you mentioned in the
funcion
> connect and i get the error:
>
> @topwin.handle(@button, FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,
> Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT), nil)
>
> undefined method `FXSEL' for
#<DialogBox:0x7f5e230>

yeah, sorry, i forgot to prefix FXSEL with Fox::
like this:

@topwin.handle(@button_ok,

Fox::FXSEL(Fox::SEL_COMMAND,Fox::FXDialogBox::ID_ACCEPT),

···

--- Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/9/06, e aldaz <ardhazes@yahoo.com> wrote:
nil)

-- meinrad

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