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Vic D'Elfant · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:43 am Post subject: IDE hangs after SHOWMODAL

Hi Guys

I've got a problem with the IDE and the SHOWMODAL command... the script below works fine, but if you click the taskbar button of the parent window the small one disappears behind it. That doesn't have be a big problem, but when I run the script in the IDE the whole IDE hangs, and it is impossible to click the parent window; it generates that disabled-sound (dong... dong..., you know what I mean I suppose Wink

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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I suppose this is becuase the IDE creates the dialogs as child windows of
itself. Regular child windows (really 'parent' in your VDS script) have no
effect on the IDE, however, modal child dialogs affect the whole script & IDE.

Vic D'Elfant · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject:

I guess you're right FreezingFire Smile

Let's hope that the users won't click the taskbar button when running the program Wink

Vic

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I forgot to add that I do find this annoying. Especially when your
script crashes or goes into an infinite loop with the modal dialog open
and you haven't saved it. Wink

Serge · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

hi vic,

you could make the child window always on top this way it never disappears or you could use WINDOW HIDE for the parent while the child is showing Smile

serge

Vic D'Elfant · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject:

Hey.... using that ONTOP style is a good idea! Very Happy

I'll give it a try.

Vic

Vic D'Elfant · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

Hm.... the child window will always remain ontop of the other windows, but everything is better then loosing the window Wink

I think it's time that VDS comes with a proper solution for those I-want-a-disabled-parent-window-but-a-enabled-child-window problems, isn't it? Laughing

Vic

jules · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject:

It's really a Windows problem. I've seen VB apps do the same thing. If the main window isn't active then Windows thinks the user doesn't want an inactve app's window popping up in the foreground, which is quite a reasonable assumption IMO.

If you don't use SMALLCAP or NOTITLE then the windows have a button on the task bar, so you can bring them to the foreground, once you realise what's happening.

If you do want the window coming to the foreground, then I've adopted the solution of not using SHOWMODAL, and sending a WINDOW ACTIVATE to the window to force it to the foreground,

Hooligan · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject:

I had that happen to me once... As I recall, I opened winspy, found the modal window, and clicked on activate. That brought it to the front. Wink