showFormInDialog and text toolbar problem

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Hello,

in my solution all toolbars are hidden. I have only one case, where I’d like to see the text toolbar to allow (minimal) HTML formatting. The form in question is shown in a dialog.

If I call application.showFormInDialog(…, showTextToolbar = true) I see the toolbar. But…

  1. The window size is too small then (I pass -1 for coordinates/sizes)
  2. Any other form in dialog now has that toolbar

Especially point 2 is a big problem. It seems that I don’t get rid of that toolbar anymore. I think the behavior should be that only if that parameter (showTextToolbar) is set to true, a toolbar should be shown and the toolbar should be hidden otherwise.

Can this be fixed?

Thanks
Patrick

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did you make a case for this?

about point 2 you could go around that in 3.5.x by using a name for the dialog specific for that dialog…
Then you have a special instance of the dialog just for that form where you show the toolbar on.

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I will try that workaround.

Yes, I did make a case (131423) and the answer was:

In the case of having showTextToolbar set to false, we remove the TextToolbar from the form (especially in the case of a cached window).

I am not at all happy with that answer. I think the default behavior should be: no text toolbar unless that parameter is set. If I set that once, I don’t want it to “stick” for ever. And I don’t want to change the hundreds of showFormInDialog() calls with showTextToolbar = false, just because I need that toolbar at one place.

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that is what that comment tells you if you set it to false (default) then it will be removed. If true then it will be added. it wont stick

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Yes, but if I want it only once? I open that form with textToolbar = true. Any other showFormInDialog I use is just

showFormInDialog(myForm)

No other params. But after I set the toolbar once, I see it in all other form in dialogs. That’s what I mean with “stick”. Once set, set forever. Not so great in my eyes. The only workaround I came up with was to open a formInDialog with toolbar=off in the onHide method of my toolbar form and hide that immediately. Do you understand what I find annoying?

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Your “workaround” seems to work, though. So thanks for that tip!