Help With ScriptUI

[IanBarber]

I have a simple Dialog with a Button.

When the button pressed, I want it to close the Dialog and open another one.

This works but when the second Dialog is opened, it doesn't have focus.

Question:

Is there a way to make this second Dialog have focus after the code has run ?

For the Buton onClick I am using

button2.onClick = function(){
  dialog.close();
  ShowMe(); // call this function to open 2nd Dialog
}

and the contents of the ShowMe function is

function ShowMe(){
    var w = new Window("dialog"); 
    w.text = "Dialog"; 
    w.orientation = "column"; 
    w.alignChildren = ["center","top"]; 
    w.spacing = 10; 
    w.margins = 16;   

var bnt_close = w.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "bnt_close"}); 
    bnt_close.text = "Close"; 
    bnt_close.onClick = function(){w.close()};

w.show();

}

ian

[jazz-y · Accepted solution]

call function ShowMe() outside function of first dialog

ShowMeFirst()
ShowMeSecond()

function ShowMeFirst(){
    var w = new Window("dialog"); 
    w.text = "Dialog"; 
    w.orientation = "column"; 
    w.alignChildren = ["center","top"]; 
    w.spacing = 10; 
    w.margins = 16;   

var bnt_close = w.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "bnt_close"}); 
    bnt_close.text = "Close"; 
    bnt_close.onClick = function(){w.close()};

w.show();

}

function ShowMeSecond() {
    var w = new Window("dialog"); 
    w.text = "Dialog"; 
    w.orientation = "column"; 
    w.alignChildren = ["center","top"]; 
    w.spacing = 10; 
    w.margins = 16;   

var bnt_close = w.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "bnt_close"}); 
    bnt_close.text = "Close"; 
    bnt_close.onClick = function(){w.close()};

w.show();

}

[IanBarber]

Thank you.

So basically, when the button is pressed it closes the Dialog and then carries on to run the ShowMeSecond() function

Ian

[jazz-y]

also you can return numeric arguments, if needed, or use preserved names to buttons ({name: "ok"} returns 1, {name: "cancel"} returns 2 )

if (ShowMeFirst().show() == 1) {ShowMeSecond()}

function ShowMeFirst(){
    var w = new Window("dialog"); 
    w.text = "Dialog"; 
    w.orientation = "column"; 
    w.alignChildren = ["center","top"]; 
    w.spacing = 10; 
    w.margins = 16;   

var bnt_close = w.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "bnt_close"}); 
    bnt_close.text = "Close"; 
    bnt_close.onClick = function(){w.close(1)};

 return w
}

function ShowMeSecond() {
    var w = new Window("dialog"); 
    w.text = "Dialog"; 
    w.orientation = "column"; 
    w.alignChildren = ["center","top"]; 
    w.spacing = 10; 
    w.margins = 16;   

var bnt_close = w.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "bnt_close"}); 
    bnt_close.text = "Close"; 
    bnt_close.onClick = function(){w.close()};

w.show();

}

[Kukurykus]

bnt_close = w.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "bnt_close"})
bnt_close.text = "Close"; bnt_close.onClick = function(){w.close(1)}

you can change to:

bnt_close = w.add('button', undefined, 'Close', {name: 'ok'})

[Lumigraphics]

w.active = true;

I see this more commonly on the Mac, where a new window doesn't have focus.