Keep guis or menus from closing

I think I found a solution menu/guis/forms closing by using dockable forms

Now I have a new problem.

When I switch between tabs the form closes and I get warning when added the dock form to switched tab.

*WARNING* hiGetWinConfig: duplicate dock assistant name found: miniMojo

Any solution to fixing this problem

my script I use to dock the form

procedure(dockGuiToWindow(form formTxt formSide)
let( (dock
(swin hiGetSessionWindow(hiGetCurrentWindow()))
)
dock=hiCreateDockWindow(
?appType "Dock Gui"
?widgetType "form"
?handle gensym("dockGui")
?form form
?title formTxt
)
hiDockWindow(
?window dock
?session swin
?side concat(formSide)
)
)); end of dockGuiToWindow


Paul

Me again

Is there a equivalent hiGetCurrentForm() for dockable form/guis?

Paul

psill00 said:

I there a way to keep the menus/guis/forms from closing

No. Escape always calls hiFormCancel. 

psill00 said:

*WARNING* hiGetWinConfig: duplicate dock assistant name found: miniMojo

Any solution to fixing this problem

Yes, you should use hiSetWinObjName to ensure that there is a unique name for each dock window. See the code below:

procedure(createForm()
  hiCreateAppForm(
    ?name gensym('MyForm)
    ?formTitle "The form"
    ?fields 
      list(
        list(
          hiCreateStringField(
            ?name 'string 
            ?prompt "string"
            ?callback lambda((field scope) printf("New value in field %L scope %L\n" field scope))
          )
          0:0 300:30 100
        )
      )
  )
)

procedure(dockGuiToWindow(form formTxt formSide)
  let( (dock
      (swin hiGetSessionWindow(hiGetCurrentWindow()))
    )
    dock=hiCreateDockWindow(
      ?appType "Dock Gui"
      ?widgetType "form"
      ?handle gensym("dockGui")
      ?form form
      ?title formTxt
    )
    ; ensure object name is unique for each dock window 
    hiSetWinObjName(dock get_string(dock->hiHandle))
    hiDockWindow(
      ?window dock
      ?session swin
      ?side concat(formSide)
    )
)); end of dockGuiToWindow

psill00 said:

Is there a equivalent hiGetCurrentForm() for dockable form/guis?

No, because forms in dock windows are never the current form. However, if you use a function object callback (see the lambda in the string field above), the scope variable contains the specific form that the field is contained within. Perhaps that does what you want?

Andrew

Hello

I dont know if I need to create another post about the docking gui issue ( great info and greatly appreciated )

The docking is working as I want but when I add another tab to the cell window the docking gui disappears.

Is there a way to keep the docked gui when I add a tab or something to live with

Paul