Re: [GNUe] Launching a form with paramaters

[Alex King]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 03:35:31PM -0500, Jason Cater wrote:
> I haven't used them much, but it sounds almost you're wanting one of our 
> "dialogs". These are alot like runForm, but work more like what you're 
> describing. Look at gnue-samples/testcases/forms/gauntlet/ for an example of 
> a dialog. Dialogs are embedded in your main form and are called using 
> activateDialog(). They can also return values to the parent form. 
> 
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out, this could be exactly what I
want.

> But to answer your question, we haven't added that level of locking to 
> runForm. I'm also doubtful we've added a way to return a value too, though it 
> *might* be possible to use python's global namespace to do it. I.e., declare 
> a variable "global".  I haven't tested this and don't know if it would work 
> or not.
> 
I tried using python globals to pass vlues between forms but it didn't
seem to work (in forms 0.5.5).

Alex

> -- Jason 
> 
> On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:55 pm, Alex King wrote:
> > I'm running forms version 0.5.5 because I'm running the version in
> > debian testing, but I also downloaded 0.5.6 and checked the relavant
> > code.
> >
> > I'll pull a version form svn and use that.
> >
> > Another thing, is it possible to return a value to a "parent" form
> > easily (ie, programatically, without storing a value in the database?)
> > Is it possible to have the parent form wait on the child?
> >
> > I am thinking of how to implement a selector widget that is more complex
> > than a simple drop-down box, and I was thinking of using another form to
> > do this.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:58:28AM -0500, Jason Cater wrote:
> > > Alex,
> > >
> > > Are you running a recent release, or from our code repository? We've
> > > fixed this recently in our source tree, but it hasn't made it into a
> > > release yet.
> > >
> > > -- Jason
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:07:31 +1200
> > >
> > > Alex King <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > In the forms developers guide, it states:
> > > > >the trigger would look like:
> > > > >form.runForm( 'myform.gfd', { 'division' : 101 } )
> > > > >That is, the parameters would be passed to runForm as a Python
> > > > >dictionary.
> > > >
> > > > However this usage produces a traceback.  I need to launch another form
> > > > from a trigger, and to pass it a value.  I am guessing ether the above
> > > > usage is obselete, or it hasn't been implemented yet.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know how I can do this?
> > > >
> > > > Alex
> > > >
> > > >
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