UI.inputbox with Webdialog

Developers
1

I found the UI.inputbox too limiting so I’ve decided to implement a web dialog with some html drop downs for selecting certain options. The problem I am having is that I have an inputbox that appears directly after the web dialog in the flow of my code. Somehow I need to pause the program flow until I get the correct response back from the web dialog and then proceed to the next step which is the input box.

I was thinking of using a while statement but this seems a little clunky to me. Just wondering what the pros would use in this type of situation.

I agree multiple inputs popping up one after the other is probably not the slickest user interface but that is what I have for now. At some point I will probably replace all the inputbox entries with web dialogs but for now I’m going to try to make them work together.

2

Using the modal method would seem to be the solution (WebDialog.show_modal) but this would be a problem for Mac users since it is not truly modal.

3

This should be easy to do (edit: no experience with Mac though):

in your html code add some sort of submit button that activates a javascript function that sends a message to your rubyscript to start an action where you open the UI.inputbox

In your ruby where you define the webdialog:

@wd.add_action_callback( "js2ruby" ) do |dlg, command|
  action = command.split(',')
  case action[0]
    when 'start_ui_inputbox'
      ...here your code for opening the UI.inputbox

and in your html/javascript something like:

function open_ui(){
  location = 'skp:js2ruby@start_ui_inputbox';
}