Hi

Thanks to François CABRIEL (fcabriel@hdr.cr-paca.fr) and Shaun McGee
(smcgee@craworld.com)

My original post :
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I'm creating dialogs for an extension ; of course I test them before creating
the extension. But when I test a dialog, its content remains linked to it.

For example I have a listbox showing the current view themes. If I create the
extension after testing the dialog, I will be prompted to locate the source
files when I load the extension on another computer.

I avoid this problem by resetting the dialog : I move one of the dialog
control so I can re-compile the dialog, and then immediately create the
extension and everything is fine.

So it works but it is painful especially when there are many dialogs. Is
there a better way ?
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I wasn't clear enough : the problem was not at the dialog start but at the
extension load that's why Shaun McGee advised me to "try initializing all
controls (set their default values) when you start the dialog". Can be
helpfull for other people though.

However François CABRIEL sent me the perfect solution for my needs :
I have to reset all the controls before I add dialogs to the extension (in
the make.extension script). He sent me the following code :

' Controls clean-up
' -------------------------
aDialog.SetObjectTag(nil)
for each c in aDialog.FindByClass(Control)
  c.SetObjectTag(nil)
  if ( c.Is(ComboBox) or c.Is(ListBox) or c.Is(TextBox) or c.Is(TextLine))
then
    c.Empty
  end
  if ( c.Is(IconBox) ) then
    c.SetIcon(nil)
  end
end

Thanks again


Michael Delorme
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