On May 14, 9:37 pm, "David C. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Iain King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi. I have a modal dialog whcih has a "Browse..." button which pops > > up a file selector. This all works fine, but the first thing the user > > has to do when they open the dialog is select a file, so I would like > > the dialog to automatically call the onBrowse function as soon as the > > dialog opens. However, I don't know how to do this. > > > dlg.ShowModal() > > onBrowse() > > > obviously doesn't work, and neither does the reverse. I was hoping > > that the dialog would throw some kind of "I have been shown" event, > > but it doesn't (as far as I can tell). How do I make the dialog do > > something as soon as it's been shown? > > It's too bad that you found an answer. You _shouldn't_ have your > dialog pop up a file-selection box as soon as it's shown! That's > not the way dialogs usually work, so you're going to confuse > people. > > Instead, first pop up the file-selection box, and then pop up > the dialog (without the Browse button) to do whatever else it > does after you've got the filename. >
That's actually what happens - the dialog throws EVT_INIT_DIALOG before it displays itself. Not that I really agree with you. I don't think that a "do such-and-such dialog" appearing with a "Select file for such-and-such" file selector on top of it, the file selector being in focus, is confusing for the user. Actually, I think it'd be friendlier - the user can see where the data from the file is going, so has an immediate reminder of what the (generic) file selector is for. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
