A new option with /dialog - mIRC Discussion Forums

I purpose a new feature for dialogs... For when dialogs are layered one on top of the other and the lower dialog(s) are dependent on the most recently opened dialog to close first.

/dialog -w D1 [ D2 ]
-w : Keeps dialog D1 disabled until dialog D2 closes. D2 is optional if dialog is opened with the -a option.

- and/or -

$dialog(DChild, DChildTable, DParent).disableparent

Naquada

Isn't that what modal dialogs (created with $dialog()) already do?

Nope

You can still select the parent dialog... tested that before posting...

Not sure what you're talking about. Did you use -4 as the 3rd parameter in $dialog()? The only condition is that the parent dialog must be active for that to work, but in the vast majority of cases you only want to open a modal dialog from an event coming from the parent one (e.g. user clicking a button). Otherwise you could activate the parent dialog (with /dialog -ev dname1) before calling $dialog(dname2,table2,-4).

Yeah... Have you tried it?

-4 or specifing the parent dialog does NOT disable the parent window. The parent dialog can still gain focus, if the parent dialog was disabled this could not occur.

You must be doing something wrong because I've used it countless times. Here's an example script that shows how to use it:

Code:

dialog test-parent {
  title "Parent dialog"
  size -1 -1 172 112
  option dbu
  button "Open a modal dialog", 1, 55 48 67 12
}
dialog test-child {
  title "Modal child dialog"
  size -1 -1 121 58
  option dbu
  text "Access parent dialog, if you can!", 1, 7 8 106 9, center
  button "OK", 2, 37 34 47 12, ok
}
on *:dialog:test-parent:sclick:1: return $dialog(test-child,test-child,-4)

Type
/dialog -m test-parent test-parent
or
/dialog -md test-parent test-parent

Not sure what the hell I was doing wrong, it works now (in my scripts also)...