Creating complete dialog box, with forms, check buttons...

GianT · Post by **GianT** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:32 pm

Hi, I need to crate dialog boxes in my program in order to add some users and link the informations to a database. For example, the informations could be the name, first name, age etc which are entered by taping on the keyboard, and some other informations like the category (student, worker, etc) which should be choosen in a list box. Could somebody help me?
PS: My english is not perfect so I appologize for the mistakes that could appear in the messages that I post.

Post by **upCASE** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:35 pm

Hi!

Hi, I need to crate dialog boxes in my program in order to add some users and link the informations to a database. For example, the informations could be the name, first name, age etc which are entered by taping on the keyboard, and some other informations like the category (student, worker, etc) which should be choosen in a list box. Could somebody help me?

Sure we can

What seems to be the exact problem?

GianT · Post by **GianT** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:51 pm

The problem is just that I have no idea how to do it (-.-)'

. If you want some precision, I don't see with which button I can create such a dialog box containing fields to fill and cheklistbox. I want to add these information to a database after, but I think that I just need to find a connexion script for this part.

Post by **NinjaNL** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:06 pm

GianT wrote:The problem is just that I have no idea how to do it (-.-)' . If you want some precision, I don't see with which button I can create such a dialog box containing fields to fill and cheklistbox. I want to add these information to a database after, but I think that I just need to find a connexion script for this part.

If you are using wxDevCpp then (assuming you already have an initial form for your main program, and you want to add a new dialog, then you select File - New - and then choose New wxDialog. You will be asked if you want to add the dialog to the current project. Select Yes.

You will need to fill in a few options (name and such) and then click on Create.

You will have a new dialog form for you to design.

Add a text control etc just as with the main form. Communicating between the dialog and your original for is then up to you.

GianT · Post by **GianT** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:57 pm

OK!! Thx I will now be abble to do my dialog... But could somebody link me to a tutorial which shows how to link the main program to the dialog when I click on a button? I don't manage to code the execution of the dialog box

GianT · Post by **GianT** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:35 pm

I did it! I manage to open my dialog by cliking on a button: For those who don't know how to do it, just copy those 3 lines from the function newProgramFrameApp::OnInit() in the newProgramFrameApp.cpp file, and paste them in the place where is to be the code of the button :

newProgramFrame *myFrame = new newProgramFrame(NULL);
//SetTopWindow(myFrame);
myFrame->Show(TRUE);

I put the second one in comment because I got compiling errors and I have not found yet which file to include. And commenting this line may be the reason why I got this problem: My dialog doesn't stay on top of the main frame... I sure put the option wx_stay_on_top but it does not work...
So if someone has an idea...

Ohh I was going to forgot, in the dialog which is added, you have to change this name #define THIS_DIALOG_STYLE to another in the header file of the dialog, if not you will get errors of compilation because the same name is used for the main frame.

GianT · Post by **GianT** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:29 pm

Well, I found the solution again, I just had to put the option of no_parent to false.