Show dialog

[Claus Nielsen]

Hello

Anyone know if it is possible to to show a screen as a dialog instead of new screen? Like with the windows form class .ShowDialog? Also, if it is possible, how to set Dialog Result for buttons?

[wlederer]

Can You clarify, what is the "discussion" with HMI about? Simple, which screen to open, or something else?

[AMitchneck]

To make a screen be a dialog instead of a window, under the General properties ribbon, select Popup and Modal (to have window just be like tool window, do not select Modal).

To pass Dialog results you can use a tag or something like

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result = ((System.Windows.Forms.Form)(Globals.ScreenName)).ShowDialog();

I will note, I've never tried to show a screen by directly using ShowDialog so I'm not 100% sure what to expect.

To get a button to return a dialog result of OK, add the following code to the button's click event

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DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;

This will also close the dialog window.

[Claus Nielsen]

AMitchneck, I've tried your solution, but it ends up with a conversion fault when casting the object ScreenWindowsAdapter to a Forms.Form object.

[AMitchneck]

Claus,

As I mentioned, I've never tried to call the ShowDialog method directly. What I do is set the dialog screen general settings to popup and modal. This makes the iX's show function work like the ShowDialog function, but without the result. To pass a result, I set a tag within the dialog.