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How to get the dialog box ID for hiDBoxCancel function?

johntling

I wrote this simple code for a dialog box to choose to edit 2 different files or to just cancel the dialog box.  But in order to cancel the dialog box I need to get the dialog box ID.  How do I do that for button 3 in the code under procedure myCallback using the hiDBoxCancel function? Skill UI reference document doesn't talk about how to get the g_dboxID from the hiDBoxCancel call.  I also tried getcurrentwindow function in this case but it doesn't seem to work either. 


procedure( callme()
textmsg = "lefpinconfig.il and lefpinconfig.csv has been generated"
dlogbox = hiDisplayAppDBox(
?name gensym( 'trReminderDialogBox ) ; unique variable
?dboxBanner "genPinConfig"
?dboxText textmsg

;dynamically built callback
;'?callback sprintf( nil "trReminderCB( \"%s\" )" textmsg )
?callback '("myCallback(1)" "myCallback(2)" "myCallback(3)")

; choices: hicWarningDialog hicErrorDialog hicInformationDialog hicMessageDialog hicQuestionDialog hicWorkingDialog
?dialogType hicInformationDialog

?dialogStyle 'modeless
; choices are: Close, CloseHelp, OKCancel, YesNo, YesNoCancel or CloseMore
;?buttonLayout 'Close
?buttonLayout 'UserDefined
?buttons '("Open il" "Open csv" "Cancel")
)
printf("%L\n" dlogbox)
)

procedure( myCallback(button)

when( button == 1 "open il file"
       il_file =  strcat( "/space/" getShellEnvVar("MYHOST") "/" getShellEnvVar("USER") "/" getShellEnvVar("PROJECT") "/"  getShellEnvVar("PROJECT_REV") "/cds_run" "/lefpinconfig.il" )
       printf("Open and edit il file %L\n" il_file)
       edit(eval(il_file))

)
when( button == 2 "open csv file"
       csv_file =  strcat( "/space/" getShellEnvVar("MYHOST") "/" getShellEnvVar("USER") "/" getShellEnvVar("PROJECT") "/"  getShellEnvVar("PROJECT_REV") "/cds_run" "/lefpinconfig.csv" )
       printf("Open and edit csv file %L\n" csv_file)
       edit(eval(csv_file))
)
when( button == 3 "Cancel"
;       hiDBoxCancel(dlogbox)
       hiDBoxCancel(

trReminderDialogBox)
)
)

callme()

  •  Hi John,

    I just got your SR on this so I will answer there also, but the quick answer is that you don't need to explicitly cancel the dialog box, the button unmaps the box from the screen, and that is all that the "cancel" operation would need to do anyway, so the "when" branch for the Cancel button (button 3) is a no-op / do nothing operation.  I tested that briefly in IC5141 and will try in IC615 shortly.

    Hope this answers your question though?

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

  • Hi Lawrence,

    Great!  Thanks for your help.  That worked.

    Didn't realize it's so easy since the other stuff I tried inputting kept giving me a *WARNING* hiiDBoxDown: not a dialog box! warning message and I didn't know where that come from.  When I turned on the log info on CIW I would see hiDBoxUser function gets returned when I click on the buttons but I don't find any information on that function either.

    However, under other circumstances where you do want to use some of these other functions that require the g_dboxID, how would one go about getting that ID?  I tried searching everywhere on support site and nothing talks about that, nor did the skill UI reference pdf.

    Thanks
    John

  • It will be stored in a variable with the same name as passed to ?name . Given that in this case you're generating that name with gensym, it will be a unique name. You could use:

    ?name dboxVar=gensym( 'trReminderDialogBox ) ; unique variable

    And then symeval(dboxVar) would give you the data structure for the dialog box. Often there is no need to have a unique variable, because if the dialog box is modal, you can replace the previous definition of the variable (although in that case you wouldn't normally need to get hold of the data structure for the dialog box).

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew,

    I have the same problem. I'm running simulation through SKILL and when finished I want to close ADE and virtuoso, but always getting pop-up dialog box which cause skill code never to finish. Here is my code:

    current_window = hiGetCurrentWindow(); this is ID of ADE window session which I want to close

    procedure(CCScloseWindowNoSave()
       hiEnqueueCmd("hiDBoxCancel(geDBox)") ; here, hiDBoxCancel actually means "No"
       hiCloseWindow(current_window)
    );procedure
    procedure(exit_virtuoso()
      CCScloseWindowNoSave()
      exit()
    );procedure
     sessionid=axlGetWindowSession() 
    axlRunSimulation( ?session sessionid ?callback "exit_virtuoso")

    The thing is that I don't want to save the current session. I want only for simulation to run - finish and close without saving session.

    The problem here is ID of the popup dialog box geDBox which is unbound. How do I get this ID?

  • in reply to Milos91

    I do sometimes wonder if anybody ever bothers reading the Guidelines for the Custom IC SKILL Forum

    Other than posting on an eight-year old thread, which only has limited relevance to the question being asked, you didn't give any indication of which dialog box you are seeing. I just opened an ADE XL view, made a change, closed it, and then (with the log filter set to show everything, or looking in the CDS.log) observed that the dialog presented was sevblockingDialogBox.

    I then adapted your code to use that dialog box, and tried doing the same and then closing the ADE XL window. The dialog box appeared briefly and then the window closed.

    Andrew.

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