Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] wait for user input

2001-07-16 Thread Form1
In a message dated 7/16/01 4:06:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How can I temporarily halt the main Dialog() from accepting other events? I > have an event that opens a dialog box (an alert) that I bring focus to, > disable the other windows, etc. I want to wait for user

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] wait for user input

2001-07-16 Thread Johan Lindstrom
Peter wrote: How can I temporarily halt the main Dialog() from accepting other events? I have an event that opens a dialog box (an alert) that I bring focus to, disable the other windows, etc. I want to wait for user input (click a button) before moving on. A modal dialog box in other words. Un

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] wait for user input

2001-07-16 Thread Piske, Harald
I didn't do this or test this, just an idea: if you fork into another, totally independent script that uses GUI, then the Dialog() call from there should not trigger event subs in your first script. Then all you need is to hang in one event sub of your first script until the second one comes back.

[perl-win32-gui-users] wait for user input

2001-07-16 Thread Peter Eisengrein
How can I temporarily halt the main Dialog() from accepting other events? I have an event that opens a dialog box (an alert) that I bring focus to, disable the other windows, etc. I want to wait for user input (click a button) before moving on. However, the script picks up other things going on and