minimize dialog box

You've created a form (there's a separate API for dialog boxes, but these are essentially similar) are "transient windows". These are handled differently by different window managers. It's up to the window manager whether they provide minimize/maximize support for transient windows - most don't. KDE does however. There's nothing you can do in your code for this - it's purely a function of the window manager.

If you always want to have minimize/maximize support on a form, you can do this by using a "Window form". This is where you use hiCreateWindow to create the window, and use this to display the form. Such forms don't have form buttons - you'd have to put buttons on the form -  but they do have pulldown menus. Tools->Technology File Manager is one of these types of forms.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew, thanks for clarification. I am facing one more issue. I created an app by using hicreateappform command. Contents in this form will vary acording to the cellName. when i am maually closing and and displaying it again then it is working fine. When I forgot to close and redisplaying another dialog box then I am getting below warning and poping up previous form only.

*WARNING* hiDeleteForm: Cannot delete a form that is mapped or from within the form's callback (CSVreport)
*WARNING* hiCreateForm: Could not delete already created form CSVreport 

I want to close existing form and display it again for new settings. For that i written below code. But it is not working. Please let me know solution

 procedure(CSVreportAndRunForm1()
if(hiIsFormDisplayed(CSVreport)   then 
print("yes")
hiFormCancel(CSVreport)
)
CSVreportAndRunForm()

)

 Thank you,

Venu

Venu,

In general I'd recommend dynamically changing the form contents rather than recreating it completely - that will work with no problems. If you really must recreate from scratch, then it has to return to the event loop before deleting and recreating the form. So this will do it:

procedure(CSVreportAndRunForm1()
if(hiIsFormDisplayed(CSVreport)   then 
print("yes")
hiFormCancel(CSVreport)
)
hiRegTimer("CSVreportAndRunForm()" 0)

)

Regards,

Andrew.