Programming question

[patrick]

Hello, I have a question:

I have a method that shows a formindialog and then goes on to do many things. The formindialog has a button "OK" and a button "Cancel". If the user hits Cancel, I do not want things to go on. What is the best way to implement this?

Something needs to happen after application.showFormInDialog.

Thanks
Patrick

[IT2Be]

Don't know if this is the best way to do this but I would define a form or global variable that is checked every time the method 'does it's thing'.

When you show the form you set the variable to 1 and by hitting the cancel button you set the variable to 0.

When you want to completely cancel all 'things that have been done' you can use a transaction that you rollback on hitting the cancel button.

Does this help? Or am I thinking the wrong way?

[patrick]

Thanks for your answer. A transaction doesn't do it because the real "data action" starts after the dialog. The global is the only way I see to do it but it sounds a little like "doing it the FM way", if you know what I mean.

[automazione]

..... global is the only way I see to do it but it sounds a little like "doing it the FM way", if you know what I mean.

May be more elegant and less "FM way" can be to define the global variable "on the fly" and not "hard-wired" in the data structure:

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quick_var = 0;
application.showFormInDialog(....);
if (quick_var == 1) .....

and in the method associated to the cancel button (and to the onHide property):

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quick_var = 1;

ciao