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Joel Hammer
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 Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject: Editing dialogs by hand |
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This must be a newbie question.
How do I edit a dialog by hand after I have created one using the dialog editor?
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dfrench
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Tools> Macros > Macro > Organiser > Modules (Tab)
Select the dialog you require , by name . They are marked by green squares in the macro/dialog panel.
Click EDIT button and you are in the same mode as when you created the dialog. |
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Joel Hammer
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Doing that just puts me into the graphical editing mode.
I want to be able to edit the basic code itself by hand (assuming those dialog boxes are in basic).
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dfrench
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Well your assumption confused me. The dialogs are not basic code, they are xml and stored in .xdl files. An example, from xray, is | Code: | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE dlg:window PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD OfficeDocument 1.0//EN" "dialog.dtd">
<dlg:window xmlns:dlg="http://openoffice.org/2000/dialog" xmlns:script="http://openoffice.org/2000/script" dlg:id="DlgArray" dlg:left="7" dlg:top="49" dlg:width="240" dlg:height="196" dlg:closeable="true" dlg:moveable="true">
<dlg:styles>
<dlg:style dlg:style-id="0" dlg:border="3d"/>
<dlg:style dlg:style-id="1" dlg:font-name="Courier New;Cumberland;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" dlg:font-height="9" dlg:font-stylename="Normal" dlg:font-family="modern"/>
</dlg:styles>
<dlg:bulletinboard>
<dlg:button dlg:id="CommandButton1" dlg:tab-index="2" dlg:left="202" dlg:top="10" dlg:width="30" dlg:height="12" dlg:default="true" dlg:value="Close" dlg:button-type="ok"/>
<dlg:text dlg:style-id="0" dlg:id="LabindexMin" dlg:tab-index="1" dlg:left="102" dlg:top="10" dlg:width="70" dlg:height="12" dlg:align="center"/>
<dlg:text dlg:style-id="0" dlg:id="LabindexMax" dlg:tab-index="3" dlg:left="102" dlg:top="26" dlg:width="70" dlg:height="12" dlg:align="center"/>
<dlg:text dlg:id="Label4" dlg:tab-index="4" dlg:left="6" dlg:top="34" dlg:width="61" dlg:height="10" dlg:value="List of values"/>
<dlg:text dlg:style-id="0" dlg:id="LabTypeElem" dlg:tab-index="5" dlg:left="4" dlg:top="10" dlg:width="83" dlg:height="12" dlg:align="center"/>
<dlg:textfield dlg:style-id="1" dlg:id="AffValues" dlg:tab-index="0" dlg:left="6" dlg:top="44" dlg:width="227" dlg:height="148" dlg:hscroll="true" dlg:vscroll="true" dlg:multiline="true" dlg:readonly="true"/>
</dlg:bulletinboard>
</dlg:window> |
You can modify the properties at run time through Basic or any language that can talk to the api by locating the control within the document and setting the properties ,
or use any editor on the .xdl . |
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Joel Hammer
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks.
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pitonyak
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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My Macro document contains examples of manipulating dialog controls from BASIC if you require samples. I also have some examlpes on my web site.
If required, you can build a dialog completely in code, but this can be a bit tedious...
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