# Servoy 6.0.4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Classic Servoy\ **Created:** [December 22, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230 "2011-12-22T14:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jan\_Blok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jan\_Blok](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Jan_Blok)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/1 "2011-12-22T14:00:00Z")
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Servoy 6.0.4 release. This version is available through the download option on the Servoy website and auto-update. Always make a backup of your current Servoy installation (directory and database) before installing/upgrading. To update a Servoy eclipse open Check for updates via help menu. **Client Changes** [fix] [SVY-891](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-891) Anchoring issue. [fix] [SVY-987](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-987) onRender on a label in listview hides the label, but not the label border [fix] [SVY-1031](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1031) Error Calling Server message shows when closing dialogs [fix] [SVY-1053](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1053) Loading Foundsets should not allow for multiple items with the same pk [fix] [SVY-1223](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1223) Strange row selection tableview behaviour in 6.0.3 smartclient [fix] [SVY-1080](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1080) Setting a label @designtime to not visible doesn’t hide the label if the label is used as a label for another element using the labelFor relation [fix] [SVY-1090](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1090) Column converter interupts onDataChange() event of a combobox in Servoy 6.0.2 [fix] [SVY-1093](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1093) Popup not showing the full content [fix] [SVY-1112](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1112) Slow performance over WAN with large number of portals on a form [fix] [SVY-1208](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1208) Right anchored labels overlap after show (inherited) form **WebClient Changes** [fix] [SVY-981](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-981) Dialog sizes shouldn’t be persisted for non-resizable dialogs. [fix] [SVY-898](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-898) Submenu code from Servoy 5 does no longer work in 6.0.x in older versions of IE [fix] [SVY-1024](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1024) Internal Error triggered by WicketRuntimeExc [fix] [SVY-1027](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1027) event.getModifiers() is not working well in table view [fix] [SVY-1244](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1244) Not Logging Out All The Way? [fix] [SVY-1250](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1250) Reports aren’t working reliably. [fix] [SVY-1264](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1264) Deadlock in Web Client when running in IE [fix] [SVY-1033](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1033) Web Client Label Vertical Alignment [fix] [SVY-1034](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1034) Combobox that is set to not enabled is still changable when the field is transaparent [fix] [SVY-1036](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1036) Opening of dialog the second time ends up causing it to resize incorrectly [fix] [SVY-1038](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1038) Servoy webclient freezes [fix] [SVY-1040](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1040) FormInDialog in webclient sticks to mouse [fix] [SVY-1220](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1220) Textfield doesn’t fire methods when focus is lost via [Enter] key [fix] [SVY-1239](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1239) Clicking a radio button on a form with multiSelect enabled, resets multiple row selection [fix] [SVY-1240](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1240) Choosing a value from typeahead list via mouse fails sometimes. [fix] [SVY-1094](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1094) Modal dialogs may end up displayed off-screen. [fix] [SVY-1102](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1102) Clicking between rows in a table view in Webclient is too slow. [fix] [SVY-1110](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1110) Table View Header Issue - Java 7 [fix] [SVY-1121](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1121) Java 7 is causing strange rendering of table headers and field in the Web Client [fix] [SVY-1111](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1111) Type Ahead Drop down Issue [fix] [SVY-1056](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1056) Putting a form into design mode does not always work in Internet Explorer [fix] [SVY-1057](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1057) The onSelect event is not properly triggered when a form is in design mode [fix] [SVY-1058](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1058) Unable to access a label with an image when a form is in design mode [fix] [SVY-1071](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1071) Internal error in dialog [fix] [SVY-1084](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1084) field value is not selected in typeahead list when field gets focus [fix] [SVY-1117](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1117) Every once in a while a dialog will refuse to open and then can’t be opened again without terminating the session. [fix] [SVY-1120](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1120) Can’t select item with mouse in type ahead fields on a table view when multiple type aheads in multiple colums [fix] [SVY-1122](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1122) Labels with mutliple lines (using html) are not centred vertically but start from centre [fix] [SVY-1123](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1123) Internet explorere 9 gets continuous full page refreshes in web client, after some time gets into an infenite loop of refreshing (flickering screen) [fix] [SVY-1129](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1129) The color set using the designtime foreground property on a checkbox doesn’t result in the correct color being applied in the Web Client on the text set in the checkbox’ titletext property [fix] [SVY-1132](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1132) Msg “a render component: shape, is missing” in 6.0.3 [fix] [SVY-1136](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1136) Webclient: Forms opened in a modal dialog from within another modal dialog do not display later when shown from the main form. [fix] [SVY-1138](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1138) Field in portal with relation based dataprovider does not work [fix] [SVY-1154](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1154) Opening a modal dialog, and then when closing it, open another modal dialog fails [fix] [SVY-1155](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1155) setting titletext property of a html area field at runtime does not work [fix] [SVY-1162](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1162) Typeaheads with spaces in the display value can not be selected. [fix] [SVY-1182](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1182) Textfield expands as if anchored to bottom, right corner of page in IE7. [fix] [SVY-1185](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1185) Issue with get/setUserProperties in the Web Client [fix] [SVY-1091](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1091) HTML in the titleText property of a checkbox not supported [fix] [SVY-1206](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1206) support for injecting Link tags with href attributes linking to entries in the media library through a non-editable HTMLArea **Developer Changes** [enh] [SVY-770](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-770) Option to exclude entire tables in a database from being shown inside Servoy Developer [enh] [SVY-1169](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1169) Should exclude ignored tables in Solution Explorer. [fix] [SVY-958](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-958) Format property gets bogus character when used with templates [fix] [SVY-1013](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1013) SVN checkout causes loads of invalid warnings [fix] [SVY-1186](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1186) New code disappears in export solution [fix] [SVY-1029](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1029) Outline doesn’t work for calculations anymore [fix] [SVY-1242](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1242) Rhino usage warning [fix] [SVY-1070](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1070) Solution Tree won’t build after adding new module [fix] [SVY-1209](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1209) excluded columns still shown in Code Completion [fix] [SVY-1210](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1210) Missing builder markers for usage of excluded columns ` [fix] [SVY-1114](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1114) exceptions and unneeded solution loads [fix] [SVY-1149](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1149) Paste in to the Interactive Console doesn’t works [fix] [SVY-1150](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1150) IDE: ‘Search for References’ & ‘Open SQL Editor’ missing from option menu for Views. [fix] [SVY-1170](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1170) Form Editor: the inline Label text editor is not always dismissed [fix] [SVY-356](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-356) Selecting the same field of the same table more than once (via 2 different relationships) in the initialSort dialog [fix] [SVY-270](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-270) CC on JSFile object returned by plugins.file.showFileOpenDialog(1, null, false) after casting also yields JavaScript object properties like prototype **Application Server Changes** [fix] [SVY-1141](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1141) App Server: NullPointerException at com.servoy.j2db.Za.Zr.startEvictor(Zr.java:8) [fix] [SVY-1064](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1064) Server log shows invalid warning about ‘addRow index paramer after createDataSource call is ignored on data set’ [fix] [SVY-1067](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1067) If a method in a headless client throws an exception using ‘throw new Error(‘error msg’)’ the callback receives incorrect exception information [fix] [SVY-1074](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1074) Not all modules referenced by a solution are initialized if the solution requires authentication and uses login and authenticator modules [fix] [SVY-1116](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1116) exception in getDataSetByQuery [fix] [SVY-1124](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1124) After Import module variables are undefined [fix] [SVY-1135](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1135) Admin Console: Clearing statistics also clears actively running queries. [fix] [SVY-1198](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1198) Multiple WARN entries in log [fix] [SVY-1204](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1204) login module won’t allow solutionModel.newForm (nullpointer exception) [fix] [SVY-1216](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1216) com.servoy.j2db.util.Debug Could not load record **Plugin Changes** [fix] [SVY-1089](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1089) PDF Forms plugin does not display form correctly [fix] [SVY-1189](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-1189) nullPointer when calling plugins.mail.isValidEmailAddress(null), instead of it returning false [fix] [SVY-376](https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-376) Mark the whole row in a DBTreeTableView bean ---
**Author:** ![tgs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@tgs](https://forum.servoy.com/u/tgs)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/2 "2011-12-24T09:35:01Z")
Since I have upgraded the Servoy Developer from 6.0.3 to 6.0.4 I get Warnings like: ```auto For performance reasons on the internet/WAN it is strongly suggested to place no more then 3 portals/tab panels on a form. For performance reasons on the internet/WAN it is strongly suggested to place no more then 20 fields on a table view form. ``` But only for one solution!? Other solutions with similar forms don’t have the performace warnings!? Ok, I can ignore and/or delete the warnings, but it would be nice to know more about this. Merry Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Harjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/harjo/32/4873_2.png) [@Harjo](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Harjo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/3 "2011-12-24T10:03:51Z")
I can tell something a little bit more about this. if you use more than 3 tabpanels on a form, and more than 20 fields/labels in a tableview, your WAN performance will decrease. (bit by bit, the more fields, the more performance will decrease) So Servoy warns you about this, but there is little bug in this, that will be solved in Servoy 6.0.4 Servoy is counting every field/label on a table-view form, instead of counting only the body-part. this will be fixed in the next version. Merry Christmas to you too! ![:)]( "Smile") ---
**Author:** ![tgs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@tgs](https://forum.servoy.com/u/tgs)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/4 "2011-12-24T10:49:42Z")
For me it is complete unrealistic to create practical forms in my solutions with less than 3 tabpanels/portals and 20 fields/labels. It’s nice to get the performance warnigs to think about it when creating forms, but it should be possible to deactivate this preference. Regards ---
**Author:** ![david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://forum.servoy.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/5 "2011-12-26T18:41:31Z")
> Harjo: > If you use more than 3 tabpanels on a form, and more than 20 fields/labels in a tableview, your WAN performance will decrease. (bit by bit, the more fields, the more performance will decrease) This is the first we’ve heard of this. Our impression is that once Servoy UI elements are cached on the client there is no additional incremental performance penalty based on the amount of Servoy UI elements. Instead, you take your performance hit up front when the UI is loading and there are some great ways to mitigate this if you are going with a complex UI. By far the single biggest impact on performance in a WAN environment (smart client here) is how many trips to the server Servoy has to make to generate a cached UI. You can easily have great performance with a dozen tab panels showing 100 fields and you can easily have really bad performance with one table view with a couple of related fields, a couple of comboboxes with related value lists (a relation-based value list attached to a column in table/list view can create a trip to the server for every row visible…), and a summary field or two at the bottom. We have Smart Client solutions running across ~2,000 miles to the server with UI screens that have 3+ split beans, literally dozens of tab panels and a lot more than 20 fields (but never in the same table as that is just bad UI) – running faster than terminal services over the same distance. Generalizing performance with this warning is overly simplistic and hence misleading. Needs just as much explanation as not having it there to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Blok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jan\_Blok](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Jan_Blok)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/6 "2011-12-27T10:47:04Z")
These warning are put inplace to make developers aware of out doing things. Over the last months more and more performance issues where filed, these cases entailed for example tableviews with more then 40 columns and the complains where “it does not perform”. Something becoming slow when outdoing things, might seem normal for most of us but apparently not for every one… And yes we have to generalise when it comes to performance warnings, I will make sure they can be disabled in next release as you are saying these warnings bug you. BTW It does warn for more then 3 tabpanels/portals on 1 form. To make things clear this is not about tabs! (and does have no relation to nesting of forms by means of tabs!) ---
**Author:** ![david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://forum.servoy.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/7 "2011-12-27T18:11:41Z")
The problem I have with this warning is that it is like throwing up a warning telling a developer their UI is ugly because there is too much stuff on a form. While the ugly part is most likely true, the reason doesn’t really help. Numbers of objects in a table view is not a real reason. You can easily have one html area field on a form and have a performance issue. Draw time for an html area field that gets 1,000 bytes of data shoved into it can take a whole second (depending on client processor). Put an html area field in a table with 20 rows showing and it only takes 50 bytes of data in each html area field to make that table 1 second slower to render. It is the type of objects that is the reason. Some – like rft/html areas and blobs – take significantly longer to render than others. There is no problem with putting 40 text fields in a table view with no calculations. Only one query to the server and it renders fast. The only truth in numbers of objects is that it is more likely to have more slower objects. Which I guess is a worth a warning but it is a warning that requires a lot of explanation. It seems to me that if you are going to get into the business of counting things and throwing up warnings, why not flag known offenders? Calcs, blobs, html/rtf fields, and related value lists in a table for starters. Better yet, have a feature that highlights all the objects on a form with a color representing their render speed potential – green, yellow and red. In a table of 40 columns, you’d instantly see which columns are most likely to cause speed issues. Along the same lines, I’d love to see the performance page of Servoy server (which is brilliant) as a view in Servoy developer. Sort of like the profiler view except you see the queries that are generated for the interface showing. Clicking on an item takes you to the object that generates the SQL. This would save a lot of time as matching up performance page items to what is generating the SQL can be tedious. I really like the idea of flagging performance issues. I just think that if you’re trying to help newbie developers out (and we all have our newbie moments) – I think it requires better solutions than generic warnings. ---
**Author:** ![jcarlos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jcarlos](https://forum.servoy.com/u/jcarlos)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/8 "2011-12-27T21:18:21Z")
> david: > It seems to me that if you are going to get into the business of counting things and throwing up warnings, why not flag known offenders? Calcs, blobs, html/rtf fields, and related value lists in a table for starters. > > Better yet, have a feature that highlights all the objects on a form with a color representing their render speed potential – green, yellow and red. In a table of 40 columns, you’d instantly see which columns are most likely to cause speed issues. > > Along the same lines, I’d love to see the performance page of Servoy server (which is brilliant) as a view in Servoy developer. Sort of like the profiler view except you see the queries that are generated for the interface showing. Clicking on an item takes you to the object that generates the SQL. This would save a lot of time as matching up performance page items to what is generating the SQL can be tedious. > > I really like the idea of flagging performance issues. I just think that if you’re trying to help newbie developers out (and we all have our newbie moments) – I think it requires better solutions than generic warnings. Excellent suggestions David. Thanks! - 1 ---
**Author:** ![Harjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/harjo/32/4873_2.png) [@Harjo](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Harjo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/9 "2011-12-27T21:32:19Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![tgs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@tgs](https://forum.servoy.com/u/tgs)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/10 "2011-12-28T07:53:44Z")
I couldn’t it say better than David! That’s what I would like to have. ---
**Author:** ![jasantana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@jasantana](https://forum.servoy.com/u/jasantana)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/11 "2011-12-28T08:08:33Z")
+1 ---
**Author:** ![rafig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/rafig/32/4463_2.png) [@rafig](https://forum.servoy.com/u/rafig)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/12 "2011-12-28T16:46:57Z")
+1 (or more… ![:D]( "Very Happy") ) ---
**Author:** ![john.allen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@john.allen](https://forum.servoy.com/u/john.allen)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/13 "2011-12-30T04:05:10Z")
I don’t believe that SVY-1154 is completely fixed. I still have a series of FIDs using the JSWindow (modal) where I run into problems in web client (Safari, Firefox, Chrome). This is with Servoy 6.0.4 and Mac OX 10.6.8. I changed the way I was doing things even before this fix came out. Namely I just used one named JSWindow and then changed the title and forms it was showing (with various pop up warnings using ServoyForge’s (Robert’s) globals.DIALOGS methods when I need one of those). This seemed to stop the problem with opening/closing the JSWindow modal FIDs. However there is still a problem with webclient when I need to bring up a globals.DIALOGS during this process. I need to stop the user closing the FID by clicking on the ‘X’ and forcing them to hit the designed button. This works fine in smart client. But in web client the FID disappears and the the Warning dialog never appears. Below is one example code. There is an existing FID in a JSWindow. The FID has an onHide event tied to it to prevent users closing it themselves. The first function is called by a button on the form and works fine if the users use that button to close the form. However it they simply close that FID and thus go straight to the second function (onHide event) then it works fine in smart client but not in web client. ```auto function CopyLocationAndClose(event) { globals.g_trigger = event.getElementName(); if(name == 'btn_copyLoc') { forms.linvlocationaccess.controller.loadRecords(globals.g_locationAccessID); var curWindow = controller.getWindow(); curWindow.title = 'Action Taken with Inventory'; curWindow.setSize(900,250); curWindow.resizable = true; forms.linvlocationaccess.controller.show(curWindow); } } ``` ```auto function onHideWindow(event) { //The if statement checks if the onHide is called by the above method in which case it simply closes the FID. //Otherwise it gives the users a warning message and cancels the closing of the FID. Fine in smart, not in web. if(event.getElementName() == null && globals.g_trigger == 'btn_copyLoc') { globals.g_trigger = null; return true; } else { } var warning = globals.DIALOGS.showWarningDialog('Copy and Close!','Close this form by clicking the button ','OK') return false; } ``` John (P.S. There might very well be a better way to force users to use the correct button for closing the FID but I couldn’t seem to find a way to do that…) ---
**Author:** ![jasantana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@jasantana](https://forum.servoy.com/u/jasantana)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/14 "2011-12-30T09:05:25Z")
Hi John. That works for me but I do it in a different way. I have a form variable **canClose** set to false in the onShow event of the form. I just set it to true in the onAction event of the OK button and the onHide event returns **canClose**. ---
**Author:** ![jasantana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@jasantana](https://forum.servoy.com/u/jasantana)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/15 "2011-12-30T09:17:51Z")
I have found what I think is a bug in 6.0.4. Sometimes not always, to be honest two times, when you create a form that extends another, some of the elements that are inherited shows a problem indicating that the UUID is duplicated. The two times were with the same element, a tabPanel. The main form is in a module of that solution and it only has code, in the main solution it is subclassed to add some elements like tabPanels, labels, etc. Some of those tabPanels are in another module. Then that form is subclassed again many times. It´s like I have a form with the code I need to manage a table, for example the customer table. In the main solution I create a subcalssed form with the common elements for that solution, let´s say the record navigators buttons, etc. Finally that is the form that I use to extend the Providers Management form, the Customer Management form, etc. I have also seen, that is since 6.0.3, that it is impossible to change the tabSequence of the inherited tabPanels, you cannot move them out of the sequence nor change it. Also the tabPanels added to the subclassed form, not the inherited, have a similar behaviour, you can only put them at the bottom of the sequence. ---
**Author:** ![john.allen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@john.allen](https://forum.servoy.com/u/john.allen)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/16 "2011-12-30T10:15:24Z")
Thanks Juan I’m sure that works great for stopping the user from closing the FID and much more elegant than my way! However I would still like to give the user a warning dialog to tell them that they have to hit the button and I don’t think that will help in web client. It works fine in smart client but just not in web client (at least in Safari, Chrome and Firefox on a Mac). It’s late here and I’ll try it tomorrow but I’m pretty sure I’ll get the same issue with the warning dialog when the onHide is triggered. ---
**Author:** ![jcompagner](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/jcompagner/32/4889_2.png) [@jcompagner](https://forum.servoy.com/u/jcompagner)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/17 "2012-01-02T19:18:16Z")
John, wat you want can’t be done, i guess this: var warning = globals.DIALOGS.showWarningDialog(‘Copy and Close!’,'Close this form by clicking the button ',‘OK’) is the mod\_dialog module? That works with continuations, so the return value “return false” after that will not happen when you show the dialog so the onhide doesn’t really return false but generates an exception and returns “undefined” and then we just close the dialog What you need to do is not use the mod\_dialog module, but really show another modal dialog (jswindow) there. and do return false, then in that modal dialog you have stuff that can really close that main modal dialog or something like that (by booleans which is already suggested ) ---
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That would work. But only for dialogs that don’t give an option as in “close dialog or not” because the code where this dialog was called from is already moved on. So the main dialog is already closed or blocked from closing depending on the return value. So I guess the real solution to this is to have control over the X control itself. If we can hide/disable it then the user would never be able to trigger the onHide in this manner. ---
**Author:** ![john.allen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@john.allen](https://forum.servoy.com/u/john.allen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230/19 "2012-01-03T08:26:51Z")
If I understand it correctly I would also very strongly support Robert’s suggestion. ff you want a user to only be allowed certain actions, the best, cleanest, most elegant solution is to limit the actions that they can take in the first place. So, if there is a modal dialog and you don’t want the user to be able to close the dialog in any other way, then it is better if there are simply no other alternatives. Otherwise the developer has to program a way to both prevent the user closing it in other ways and inform the user that they cannot do it any other way. And for the user it is more confusing and more dialogs they have to deal with. Much better if there is no other way to ‘close’ the modal dialog, no ‘X’ or ‘red dot’ at all. Is that possible? In fact I think it would be best if the default for modal dialogs was like that as generally with a modal dialog I think the developer most of the time wants to dictate the user’s options. For some of the dialogs hitting the ‘X’ is akin to ‘canceling’ the action which sometimes works so no harm done. But I think generally with a modal dialog especially you want to be able to control the users response completely so better to have no other alternative visible at all for the user in the first place… ---
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But that is quite simply done in servoy, yes maybe there are better ways, but currently just do: ```auto var canClose = false; onhide() { return canClose;} onActionButtonInDialog() { canClose = true; window.close(); } ``` then the close button never does do anything, and you can only close it through the modal dialog itself. if you want to show a dialog telling the users that they can’t press close thats also quite easy just show another modal dialog in the onhide (but don’t use the mod\_dialogs plugin or something like that, just plain modal dialog with a simple form) [Next page](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-6-0-4/15230.md?page=2)