Questions tagged [modeless]
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C# Turning Modal form to Modeless
I have a modal form but I need to change it to modeless. The form's purpose is to receive user input, either click OK or Cancel, then continue with further functionality in the same method. I know the sources I've found say just to change…
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Modeless dialog in ExtJs
I want to implement modeless dialog boxes in ExtJS.
For exapmle, the new pop-up window/panel should not leave the originating screen as inactive. Both should be accessible at the same time.
How do we that?
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Parent window shortcut steals input from modeless child
I have an application with a parent window and the potential for multiple modeless windows to be pulled up from it.
In one of these modeless windows, there is a text box.
When typing in the textbox, I want to be able to hit CTRL+A to select all…
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How to Change an MFC Modeless Dialog to be the child of a CView in an MDI application?
I have an MFC application that is a Doc/View/Frame implementation. One dialog is running as a modeless dialog which pops up on demand (from a menu option). I'm looking to add the modeless dialog to an MDI child view. Basically, I want to load the…
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How Can I add several Items to a Listbox in Win32 Project C++?
I am working on a win32 project (visual studio 2012). User Can Enter several markers with their coordinates and names;
Now I want to Add all the markers name in the Listbox as a separate item; but with the below code I don't see anything in…
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Which's better: MDI children, or modeless dialogs?
What's the pros and cons for each of them?
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Modeless UserForm won't allow user to change windows
I have a script which will cycle through 500+ files and make minor edits using a find and replace procedure. If the string cannot be found, however, I'd like the code to open a Modeless UserForm which will allow for manual editing. I would have…
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Modal Windows Forms in Office
I have a modal Windows form created in VB.NET that I am using for a PowerPoint add-in (this issue would also apply to an Excel add-in, I suspect). The form lets the user select shapes on the current slide from a ListView object. With each…
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How do I keep a form I launched using the .Show() method on the screen
So I have a program which is itself a console application, but which manages a few forms. The primary form has the ability to launch a secondary form, and I want it to be able to launch more than one of it's secondary forms.
The trouble is when I…
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how to create a modeless dialog in tcl/tk
I'm trying to make a modeless dialog, since whenever a dialog appears stops the real time process that is running in the main gui, after some reasearch i realize that the problem that is causing the real time part to stop is the "vwait" command in…
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C++ Modeless Dialog created from DLL doesn't process input properly
I am having issues with creating a modeless dialog from a DLL file. My dialog has nothing special on it, just an OK button and an edit box. I have looked at this Microsoft KB Article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/233263) and have implemented its…
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How to disable user interaction in a Qt application when a DialogBox shown?
I have a modeless QDialog box that popup on errors/warning in my Qt application, I want to force the user to only focus on that dialog box and not click anything in the application until they clicked Ok on the dialog box.
I need the dialog box to…
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Is there a way to auto-hide a always-on-top modeless dialog when the parent opens a modal dialog?
My C# Winforms app has an always-on-top modeless find dialog. Since the user has access to the parent window while the modeless find dialog is open they can choose to open a modal dialog as well. Since the modeless dialog is always-on-top it…
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Display a modeless Form but only one
VB2010. I must be missing something because I couldn't find a solution after searching for an hour. What I want to do is simple. In my app I want to display a modeless form so that it is floating while the user can still interact with the main…
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What does "singleton modeless" mean?
I know what a singleton is, but while walking through a web-app, my co-worker said "singleton-modeless". What does he mean by this?
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