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Florent Arrignon

modal dialog

Hi Pharoers,

I'm a beginner with Pharo and try to dive into Morph. My question is trivial as I want to open a modal dialog to catch some text and save it in a file.

I use the following code:
dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.
dialog openInWorld.
dialog canceled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].

In Cincom Smalltalk, the same code opened a dialog modally , but here, not, as it seems suggested in the DialogWindow class comment. I don't know how to change this, I tried to include it as submorph in another morph, but it failed (still system modal). I also tried to tell currentWorld to set the ModalWindow to Dialog, without success. Any hint?

Thank you

Florent

Daniel Galdames

Re: modal dialog

You can do something like this:

dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.

World openModal: dialog.

dialog cancelled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].

but I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it.

Daniel Galdames

El miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012 a las 15:58, Florent Arrignon escribió:

Hi Pharoers,

I'm a beginner with Pharo and try to dive into Morph. My question is trivial as I want to open a modal dialog to catch some text and save it in a file.

I use the following code:
dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.
dialog openInWorld.
dialog canceled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].

In Cincom Smalltalk, the same code opened a dialog modally , but here, not, as it seems suggested in the DialogWindow class comment. I don't know how to change this, I tried to include it as submorph in another morph, but it failed (still system modal). I also tried to tell currentWorld to set the ModalWindow to Dialog, without success. Any hint?

Thank you

Florent

Sven Van Caekenberghe-2

Re: modal dialog

In reply to this post by Florent Arrignon

Hi Florent,

On 26 Sep 2012, at 20:58, Florent Arrignon <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm a beginner with Pharo and try to dive into Morph. My question is trivial as I want to open a modal dialog to catch some text

Maybe this is not what you are looking for, but a very easy way is like this:

UIManager default request: 'Enter some text'.

Sven

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http://stfx.eu
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Florent Arrignon

Re: modal dialog

In reply to this post by Daniel Galdames

Thank you, it works well ! I had seen openModal: but did not know how to use it.

Sven, thank you too. I had seen the UIManager>>request: but was afraid to have to subclass such a class when in need for a simple special dialog design.

Florent

Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:57:14 -0300
From: [hidden email]
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] modal dialog

You can do something like this:

dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.

World openModal: dialog.

dialog cancelled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].

but I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it.

Daniel Galdames

El miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012 a las 15:58, Florent Arrignon escribió:

Hi Pharoers,

I'm a beginner with Pharo and try to dive into Morph. My question is trivial as I want to open a modal dialog to catch some text and save it in a file.

I use the following code:
dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.
dialog openInWorld.
dialog canceled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].

In Cincom Smalltalk, the same code opened a dialog modally , but here, not, as it seems suggested in the DialogWindow class comment. I don't know how to change this, I tried to include it as submorph in another morph, but it failed (still system modal). I also tried to tell currentWorld to set the ModalWindow to Dialog, without success. Any hint?

Thank you

Florent

Stéphane Ducasse

Re: modal dialog

Florent

We are not happy of the current design.
UIManager allows us to control window request in headless mode.
Now this is not really satisfactory. Facades are often bad smells to me.
There is UITheme and others… and the responsibilities are unclear.

Now you do not have to subclass you can extend it.
Still I'm not happy about the overall design.

For example, some logic of the debugger building should be located in the Debugger class and not in UIManager or whatever class.

This is why we are working on Spec and its UIBuilder and we want to rewrite all the tools.
But it takes time. We will get there after 20 is out probably.

Stef

> Thank you, it works well ! I had seen openModal: but did not know how to use it.
>
> Sven, thank you too. I had seen the UIManager>>request: but was afraid to have to subclass such a class when in need for a simple special dialog design.
>
> Florent
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:57:14 -0300
> From: [hidden email]
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] modal dialog
>
> You can do something like this:
>
> dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.
> World openModal: dialog.
> dialog cancelled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].
>
> but I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it.
> --
> Daniel Galdames
>
> El miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012 a las 15:58, Florent Arrignon escribió:
> Hi Pharoers,
>
> I'm a beginner with Pharo and try to dive into Morph. My question is trivial as I want to open a modal dialog to catch some text and save it in a file.
>
> I use the following code:
> dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.
> dialog openInWorld.
> dialog canceled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].
>
> In Cincom Smalltalk, the same code opened a dialog modally , but here, not, as it seems suggested in the DialogWindow class comment. I don't know how to change this, I tried to include it as submorph in another morph, but it failed (still system modal). I also tried to tell currentWorld to set the ModalWindow to Dialog, without success. Any hint?
>
> Thank you
>
> Florent

Denis Kudriashov

Re: modal dialog

In reply to this post by Florent Arrignon

Hello

Do you see Presenty? http://smalltalk-presenty.blogspot.com/
You can try it with prepared image at http://code.google.com/p/smalltalk-presenty

In Presenty your example will look like:

YourApplicationTask>>body
some stuff...
answer := user confirm: 'message'.
...

And modal mode of confirmation dialog is just one specific setting of it activation which can be different for different parts of your application.

Best regards,
Denis

2012/9/27 Florent Arrignon <[hidden email]>

Thank you, it works well ! I had seen openModal: but did not know how to use it.

Sven, thank you too. I had seen the UIManager>>request: but was afraid to have to subclass such a class when in need for a simple special dialog design.

Florent

Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:57:14 -0300
From: [hidden email]
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] modal dialog

You can do something like this:

dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.
World openModal: dialog.
dialog cancelled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].

but I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it.
--
Daniel Galdames

El miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012 a las 15:58, Florent Arrignon escribió:

Hi Pharoers,

I'm a beginner with Pharo and try to dive into Morph. My question is trivial as I want to open a modal dialog to catch some text and save it in a file.

I use the following code:
dialog := TextEntryDialogWindow new.
dialog openInWorld.
dialog canceled ifFalse: [self createAndWrite: dialog entryText].

In Cincom Smalltalk, the same code opened a dialog modally , but here, not, as it seems suggested in the DialogWindow class comment. I don't know how to change this, I tried to include it as submorph in another morph, but it failed (still system modal). I also tried to tell currentWorld to set the ModalWindow to Dialog, without success. Any hint?

Thank you

Florent