Re: how to use modal dialog boxes?

Hi Thomas,

ok, thank you.

I'll move the code below the dialogbox invocation into the submit
event handler.

Magnus

On 7 Sep., 16:03, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 7, 3:28 pm, Magnus <alpineblas...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I want to use a modal DialogBox and used setModal.
>
> > The GUI makes it modal, but my code after dialog.center (); gets
> > executed immediately.
>
> modal != blocking
>
> The only blocking dialogs are Window.alert, Window.confirm and
> Window.prompt (IE has had a showModalDialog for long, which is now
> being standardized at the W3C <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
> timers.html#dom-showmodaldialog> and is implemented in Firefox 3 and
> recent WebKit –works in Chrome 7-dev and Safari 5.0.1 on Windows– but
> still not Opera, and don't expect support in older WebKits –I think we
> can just ignore Firefox 2 nowadays?–, not to mention that it loads
> another HTML page, which makes things a bit harder to work with).
>
> > How can I do it so that code execution waits? Must I do this with
> > asynchronous calls? Can you give an example?
>
> Modal just means you cannot interact with the rest of the page/
> application, but it's still just a dialog box (i.e. a <div> –or is it
> a <table>?– with position:absolute and some top/left/width/height
> values) that needs to handle events (which is how you'd listen to...
> events from the box; no "asynchronous call", just event handlers)

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