2.86 .dialogbox

This attribute changes a window into a so-called dialogbox. If a dialogbox is visible, input by the keyboard or the mouse to other windows is deactivated. Input to other windows becomes possible only after the dialogbox has been closed.

If the argument is true, the affiliated window is a dialogbox. This means that all other windows are deactivated as soon as the dialogbox appears on the screen. Other active windows can be executed again only after the dialogbox has been closed.

Definition

  • Data type

    boolean

  • Access

    get, set

  • changed event

    yes

  • C

    Identifier: AT_dialogbox

    Data type: DT_boolean

  • COBOL

    Identifier: AT-dialogbox

    Data type: DT-boolean

  • Classification

    object-specific attribute

  • Objects

    window

Note on IDM for Motif

Motif generates an application-modal dialogbox.

Note on IDM for Windows

Only toplevel window can be a dialogbox!

As usual for Microsoft Windows the dialogboxes are displayed with a thick frame, if they are not sizeable (.sizeable=false).

See also

Attribute .defbutton