[mcclim-devel] Spiffy code sought for elegant pop-up dialog!

[Peter Braroe]

Hey!

Thanks! And that was quick!

I tried it and it worke great, nice little thing, now i have something
to work from! 

Regarding the accepting-values and :own-window. I didn't get that to
work. Do I need to do something special to get a new window? The 0.9.1
spec said something about it beeing unimplemented so I didn't research
it too much.

Here it says:

"There is no gadget-based implementation of accepting-values. own-window
is not supported."
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/mcclim-announce/2005-March/000000.html


But now that I know it works I will try a bit harder to get it to work!

Thanks again!!

/Peter



On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 18:06 +0100, Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> Peter Braroe <peter.braroe at newsmachine.com> writes:
> 
> > As I have understood, it seems that :own-window t for accepting-values
> > or NOTIFY-USER is not available yet in McCLIM. I really have my heart
> 
> As far as I know, McCLIM does support :own-window t for
> accepting-values.
> 
> 
> > What I want to do is:
> >
> > 1  Create a child window
> > 2A Populate with text-fields, checkboxes, and buttons (like gadet-test)
> > 2B Add "Save" button and method that returns/stores the values selected 
> > 3  Move focus to child, put original window in background
> > 4  Destroy child window, refocus on original window
> [...]
> > So if anyone has a nice example* of how to do this that would be a
> 
> One way to do that is by creating a full application frame for your
> dialog box with all the gadgets you need, and call it from your
> application code.  It works nicely, but is rather verbose.  Some time
> ago I posted an example here:
> 
>   Poor man's CLIM text style selection dialog
>   http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/mcclim-devel/2005-July/004113.html
> 
> 
> Paolo