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Stopping the Escape key from closing my dialog.

KevinWH

I'm creating a dialog with hiDisplayForm

When the form is displayed, and I press the "Escape" key, the dialog closes.

Is there a way to prevent that behavior?

  • RK56
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    I wonder why not. What if hiFormCancel is assigned to the Escape key?

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to RK56

    You can't define bindkeys for transient forms (only for Window forms - i.e. forms instantiated into window). So the esc key (when the focus is on the form) will cancel the form as built-in behaviour (so I'm not sure what benefit assigning hiFormCancel() to the escape key would have, since that would be a bindkey for over the canvas in a particular application, and it already cancels the form if the focus is on the form anyway). There is a cdsenv var for options forms (i.e. forms associated with an enter function):

    ui      cancelEnterFunHidesOptionForm boolean t

    which means that esc doesn't cancel but hides the form (on the first press) - the second press does however cancel the command. That's almost certainly not what you wanted though.

    Andrew.

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