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DIALOG-BOX Widget

A dialog box is a special type of frame that is displayed in its own window. A dialog box differs from a window in two major respects:

You can specify that a frame be displayed as a dialog box by using the VIEW-AS phrase. You can create a dynamic dialog box with the CREATE Widget statement.

A dialog box can contain a frame family acting as the root frame. However a dialog box cannot be a child of another frame or dialog box; it can only be parented by a window.

The following dialog box contains:

ATTRIBUTES

Attributes
  1. Readable only.
  2. Supported in graphical interfaces only.
  3. Supported in character interfaces only.

METHODS

Methods

EVENTS

Event Type
Supported

NOTE

Generally, your application must wait to complete dialog box input before continuing with other processing. However, the WAIT-FOR statement for the procedure can also respond to an event for a procedure handle as long as the widget in the WAIT-FOR statement widget list is a procedure handle.

SEE ALSO

FRAME Widget, WAIT-FOR Statement, WINDOW Widget, the chapter on frames and the chapter on user interface design in the Progress Programming Handbook .


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