Deleting non-modal dialogs Topic is solved

[Ravilj]

How does one go about deleting/destroying/closing a non modal dialog? Show( false ) just hides it. The dialog gets created on the click of a button. The parent has a pointer to the dialog to allow for it to be updated. Now how do I go about deleting/destroying/closing the dialog when the close button or the ok button is clicked.

[Tyler]

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MyModal* modal = new MyModal(this);
// Show the modal dialog.. this function blocks
modal->ShowModal();
// After they push "OK" on modal and the OK button calls Hide();
// we destroy the dialog
modal->Destroy();

hope that helps...

[Ravilj]

What I really am looking for is this:

I have a panel with a button, on the click it initiates a non-modal dialog at this time the button is disabled. When the dialog closes (the user clicks the ok button or the close button) the button should be re-enabled.

The dialog needs to be model since there are controls on the panel that change things on the dialog.

[priyank_bolia]

When the dialog is Modal, why do you care to disable the panel buttons, and way you can disable them by Calling m_button->Enable(false); before ShowModal(); on the dialog and after ShowModal(); renable them by m_button->Enable(true);

[Ravilj]

What happens is the button captures a frame from a video feed and displays the image in a dialog box.

A panel is the parent of the dialog box. It contains controls that are used to change some attributes on the image frame hence why the dialog must be non-model.

When they close the dialog box, obviously the capture button needs to be re-enabled such that another sample can be taken.

Unfortunately the image can not be shown in the panel which would solve a lot of problems hence why the dialog.

[priyank_bolia]

So, what the problem creating non-modal dialog or disabling the buttons.

Disabling the buttons:
Save the pointer of the parent passed in the dialog constructor, and before calling the dialog disable the panel button by Enable(false); in the dialog OK button or in OnClose handler, from the parent pointer call a function to renable the panel button by Enable(true);

[Ravilj]

Thats what I am actually implementing now. The problem was that I was making use of a slider for a threshold level on the image. On a slider event it would update the image. So when the dialog box was hidden the images still get updated hence moving the threshold slider was slow/delayed.

I have since then dropped that idea.

Ahhh, I forgot about the close event.

[priyank_bolia]

In the Update function you can also check whether the dialog is visible or not by IsShown, and return immediately is hidden.

[Ravilj]

Ah! I was looking for that function, hmm its not in the documentation that I was using That works for me.

[priyank_bolia]

It is in the wxWindow class documentation, which is the base class of all controls.