Dialogue window is always in focus

[Dmitriy K.]

How to change the code so that when the button is pressed, the dialog window does not close, and it would be possible to re-enter the data in the edittext and click the button again?

app.addMenuItem({ cParent:"Help", cName:"-", cExec:" ", nPos: 0});
app.addMenuItem({ cParent: "Help", cUser: "Test", cName: "Test", cExec: "Test()", cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);",  nPos: 0});

function Test() 
{
var dialog1 = 
{
	Btn1: function(dialog)
	{
		var result = dialog.store()["Txt1"]
		Ndata = result
		dialog.end("Btn1");
	},
	Stop: function(dialog)
	{	
		idx = "Cancel"
		dialog.end("Stop");
	},
	description:
	{name: "Test", align_children: "row", width: 300, height: 300,
		elements:
		[
			{
				alignment: "align_right",
				type: "button",
				name: "Cancel",
				item_id: "Stop",
				width: 5
			},
			{
				type: "edit_text",
				item_id: "Txt1",
				width: 170,
				height: 25
			},
			{
				type: "button",
				name: "Enter date",
				item_id: "Btn1",
			}
		]
	}
};
app.execDialog(dialog1);

		array = this.getPageBox("Crop",1);
		r = array.toString()
		r = r.split(",");
		rectX1 = [Math.round(r[2])-391, 108, Math.round(r[2])-354, 132];
		this.addAnnot({page: 1, type: "Stamp", rect: rectX1, author: "", AP: "#NewDate" })

}; app.trustedFunction(Test);

[try67]

Dialogs in Acrobat are modal. You can't leave interact with the rest of the application while they are open.
What you can do, though, is re-open the dialog after it closed. You would need to re-populate all the fields in it with the old values entered into them, though.

[Dmitriy K.]

Suppose the old data does not need to be filled in again, what would the code look like then? I tried to duplicate the Dialog call, but nothing works.

[try67]

Yes, that should have worked... Can you post your code?

[Dmitriy K.]

I am sorry, I had a mistake in the code, the Dialog window does appear again, but only once.

app.addMenuItem({ cParent:"Help", cName:"-", cExec:" ", nPos: 0});
app.addMenuItem({ cParent: "Help", cUser: "Test", cName: "Test", cExec: "Test()", cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);",  nPos: 0});

function Test() 
{
var dialog1 = 
{
	Btn1: function(dialog)
	{
		var result = dialog.store()["Txt1"]
		Ndata = result
		dialog.end("Btn1");
	},
	Stop: function(dialog)
	{	
		idx = "Cancel"
		dialog.end("Stop");
	},
	description:
	{name: "Test", align_children: "row", width: 300, height: 300,
		elements:
		[
			{
				alignment: "align_right",
				type: "button",
				name: "Cancel",
				item_id: "Stop",
				width: 5
			},
			{
				type: "edit_text",
				item_id: "Txt1",
				width: 170,
				height: 25
			},
			{
				type: "button",
				name: "Enter date",
				item_id: "Btn1",
			}
		]
	}
};
app.execDialog(dialog1);

		array = this.getPageBox("Crop",1);
		r = array.toString()
		r = r.split(",");
		rectX1 = [Math.round(r[2])-391, 108, Math.round(r[2])-354, 132];
		this.addAnnot({page: 1, type: "Stamp", rect: rectX1, author: "", AP: "#NewDate" })
var dialog1 = 
{
	Btn1: function(dialog)
	{
		var result = dialog.store()["Txt1"]
		Ndata = result
		dialog.end("Btn1");
	},
	Stop: function(dialog)
	{	
		idx = "Cancel"
		dialog.end("Stop");
	},
	description:
	{name: "Test", align_children: "row", width: 300, height: 300,
		elements:
		[
			{
				alignment: "align_right",
				type: "button",
				name: "Cancel",
				item_id: "Stop",
				width: 5
			},
			{
				type: "edit_text",
				item_id: "Txt1",
				width: 170,
				height: 25
			},
			{
				type: "button",
				name: "Enter date",
				item_id: "Btn1",
			}
		]
	}
};
app.execDialog(dialog1);
}; app.trustedFunction(Test);

[try67]

- You don't need to re-define the dialog. You can use the original variable you created for it.

- If you don't want the dialog to close put it in a loop, but make sure to define a stop condition or you'll be stuck in it and will have to hard-close the application!

[try67]

PS. There are much easier and better ways of doing what you're trying to do. For example, you can use the validate function of the dialog to prevent it from closing in the first place if the user didn't fill in a required field.

[Dmitriy K.]

do not quite understand how it is possible to do this? can you show at least schematically? By loop you mean let's say the operator While? Pressing the Cancel button can be made a condition for exiting the loop?

[try67]

Here you go:

var userDate = null;
var dialog1 = 
{
	validate: function(dialog) {
		var v = dialog.store()["Txt1"];
		if (v=="") {
			app.alert("You must enter a date.");
			return false;
		}
		return true;
	},
	
	commit: function(dialog) {
		userDate = dialog.store()["Txt1"];
	},
	
	description:
	{name: "Test", align_children: "row", width: 300, height: 300,
		elements:
		[
			{
				type: "edit_text",
				item_id: "Txt1",
				width: 170,
				height: 25
			},
			{
				type: "ok_cancel",
				ok_name: "Enter Date",
				cancel_name: "Cancel"
			}
		]
	}
};
if (app.execDialog(dialog1)=="ok") app.alert("You entered " + userDate);

[Dmitriy K.]

Your option does not fit, i meant something like this:

...
var retn = app.execDialog(dialog1);
if (retn != "Stop") {retn};

but this code doesn't work yet either, Dialog disappears after the second button press(