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Preventing a form from unmapping till the user wishes

mana

 Hi

Iam designing a GUI for an application. I have used the hiCreateAppForm function in it to create a  form. By default, the form gets unmapped once the user presses OK. In case the user again wants to give inputs with minor changes in the fields, he has to fill the entire form all over again. So i wanted to keep some option to keep the form mapped on screen with all the fields having previous values filled in them, till the user himself gives instruction to fill a fresh form. I was looking for some argument in the hicreateAppForm function or a seperate function to enable such a thing. 

So if I may get some suggestions on the same.

 

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  • dmay

    Here are two things you can do:

    1. Add an Apply button to your form so that the form is not dismissed:
        ?buttonLayout 'OKCancelApply
    2. Define your form as a global variable and if the form is already bound, just display the form, do not recreate it:
    unless(boundp('_MY_FORM)
        hiCreateAppForm(?name '_MY_FORM
        ...
    )
    hiDisplayForm(_MY_FORM)

    Derek

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  • dmay

    Here are two things you can do:

    1. Add an Apply button to your form so that the form is not dismissed:
        ?buttonLayout 'OKCancelApply
    2. Define your form as a global variable and if the form is already bound, just display the form, do not recreate it:
    unless(boundp('_MY_FORM)
        hiCreateAppForm(?name '_MY_FORM
        ...
    )
    hiDisplayForm(_MY_FORM)

    Derek

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