Got it. Thanks.
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Oliver Sims <
oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk> wrote:
> **
> >> a dialog box usually (?) preempts access to any "underlying" window
>
> In ooDialog there are several options when creating dialog A from dialog
> B, and making dialogs modeless is simple. Chapter 6 in the Guide explains
> this (I hope!!), and exercise 6 uses modeless dialogs throughout - except
> for the "application" dialog which I've made to look like an "application
> window". If you close this, then everything else closes and the app ends.
> However, if you close any one of the other dialogs, nothing happens to any
> of the other dialogs. Also, you can click on any dialog and interact with
> it without having to close any other dialog.
>
> This means that you only preempt access to an "underlying" dialog if the
> logic of the application demands it.
>
> ooDialog's pretty good, innit?
>
> --
> Oliver
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Hobart Spitz [mailto:orexx...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 01 April 2012 19:33
> *To:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window
>
> I think the audience you are directing this to would also like to know
> that a dialog box usually (?) preempts access to any "underlying" window
> from which the box orignated.
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Oliver Sims <
> oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> At the start of the Guide, I'd like to have a short statement about the
>> difference between dialogs and windows. Here's a draft:
>>
>> Wikipedia states, "In a graphical user interface of computers, a dialog
>> box is a type of window used to enable reciprocal communication or "dialog"
>> between a computer and its user." So a dialog is a "type of window", which
>> is (Wikipedia again) "... a visual area containing some kind of user
>> interface." Thus a dialog is less than a window. At one time, most GUI
>> applications needed windows, with dialogs being used only for simple
>> functions such as file finding, or entering a password. Since then, the
>> function provided for dialogs has expanded enormously. So much so that
>> today a reasonable application can be built with only dialogs - as this
>> Guide attempts to show.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>> Thanks,
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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