How to let the script continue after a form has been opened by "sevEdit..." or "sevChoose..." API

Hi Yi,

Not sure what you're trying to achieve in the end, but the usual way of dealing with a blocking form is to use hiEnqueueCmd() before you call the function that brings up a blocking form. Note that the form will still block, but if you put all the SKILL code that you want to run within the string passed to hiEnqueueCmd, then it will execute that as soon as the SKILL top-level has returned (i.e. it's waiting for interaction with the form).

So something like:

procedure(MYdoSomethingAfterForm()
  ; interact with the form
  hiGetCurrentForm()->...=...
  ; close the form
  hiFormDone(hiGetCurrentForm())
  ; now do whatever you want to do next
  saveTheWorld()
)

then:

procedure(MYlaunchForm()
  hiEnqueueCmd("MYdoSomethingAfterForm()")
  sevDoThisOrDoThat() ; whatever you're doing that brings up a blocking form
)

Maybe my response in the other post resolves this - although it's not entirely clear what you're really trying to do, so maybe it doesn't!

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew

Thank you for your feedback.

What I want to achieve previously was to open a form, and change some setting in it.

As on that moment, I opened the "Edit Choosing Analyses" via "sevEditSelectedAna(session)" API, and if I want to change the analyses, I have to change the setting in the form.

This request has been solved when you provide me "sevChooseAnalysesForm(session 'analysesName)" API.

But in general, if I open a form, and want to change some setup of it by script. The method with "hiEnqueueCmd" may not help.

Another question, even I set "t" for the "?dontBlock" attribute of the form, it's still blocking the script to be executed.
May I know why?

Best Regards

Yi

Hi Yi,

If you created the form yourself and used ?dontBlock t, then it will not block when  you call hiDisplayForm(). Note that you cannot set this attribute after the form has been created (well, you can set it, but it won't have any effect).

If you're dealing with a form created by somebody else that doesn't have ?dontBlock t set at creation time, the only options you have are to find a non-form-based API, or to use hiEnqueueCmd (or hiRegTimer - they have a similar effect).

Regards,

Andrew.