opps sorry I spoke a little to soon... I figured out what your doing

when before returns false it prevents the dialog from closing
so really quite opposite of what I said previously in fact its a great
way to determine if a dialog should close or not

hth
Mike

On Nov 20, 9:00 am, Mean Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think your confused about what beforeclose does,
>
> beforeclose doesn't close a dialog it does whatever you put in its
> function right after dialog('close') is called
>
> so you would do somthing like this
>
>   $(document).ready(function() {
>                 $('#notesDialog').dialog({
>                         autoOpen: false,
>                         width: 590,
>                         resizable: false,
>                         draggable: false,
>                         bgiframe: true,
>                         modal: true,
>                         beforeclose: function(event, ui) {
>                                 return CloseNotesDialog();
>                         }
>                         buttons: {
>                     OK: function() {
>                         $(this).dialog('close');
>                     }
>                         }
>        });
>    });
>
>    function CloseNotesDialog()
>    {
>        var subject = $('#<%= txtSubject.ClientID %>');
>        var note = $('#<%= txtNote.ClientID %>');
>
>        if (subject.val() != '' || note.val() != '')
>        {
>            var pnlNotes =  $('#<%= pnlNotes.ClientID %>');
>            var pnlNotesConfirmation =  $('#<
> %=pnlNotesConfirmation.ClientID %>');
>
>            pnlNotesConfirmation.height(pnlNotes.height());
>            pnlNotes.hide();
>            pnlNotesConfirmation.show();
>
>            return false;
>        }
>    }
>
> and when the user clicks "OK" your CloseNoteDialog() function would be
> called
>
> if your trying to determine if the dialog should close or not your
> should do that in "OK"'s funtion
>
> Make sense ?
>
> Mike
>
> On Nov 19, 10:24 am, Nabeal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm at a loss.  I have hooked a beforeclose function, and that works
> > fine.
> > The issue that is killing me is when I want to close the dialog after
> > the beforeclose returns false, nothing happens!!
> > On the pnlNotesConfirmation there is a "No" button.  On that "No" I
> > try to perform: $('#notesDialog').dialog('close');  No event action
> > occurs.
>
> > I tried the following line first: $('#notesDialog').dialog('option',
> > 'beforeclose', function(ev, ui) {return true;});
> > Still it doesn't close.
>
> > The only way I got to work was by doing a destroy ($
> > ('#notesDialog').dialog('destroy'); ) then re init the dialog.  That
> > can't be right.  What am I doing wrong.
> > Using 1.7.2
>
> >     $(document).ready(function() {
> >         $('#notesDialog').dialog({
> >             autoOpen: false,
> >             width: 590,
> >             resizable: false,
> >             draggable: false,
> >             bgiframe: true,
> >             modal: true,
> >             beforeclose: function(event, ui) { return CloseNotesDialog
> > (); }
> >         });
> >     });
>
> >     function CloseNotesDialog()
> >     {
> >         var subject = $('#<%= txtSubject.ClientID %>');
> >         var note = $('#<%= txtNote.ClientID %>');
>
> >         if (subject.val() != '' || note.val() != '')
> >         {
> >             var pnlNotes =  $('#<%= pnlNotes.ClientID %>');
> >             var pnlNotesConfirmation =  $('#<%=
> > pnlNotesConfirmation.ClientID %>');
>
> >             pnlNotesConfirmation.height(pnlNotes.height());
> >             pnlNotes.hide();
> >             pnlNotesConfirmation.show();
>
> >             return false;
> >         }
> >     }

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