You too can display non-modal dialog boxes: LrDialogs.presentFloatingDialog

Question

Undocumented function: LrDialogs.presentFloatingDialog
ref: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/sdk_lrdialogs_presentfloatingdialog_ and_showstringsdialog_undocumented
This works for displaying non-modal dialog box:
LrFunctionContext.postAsyncTaskWithContext( "test", function( context )
    local LrPhotoPictureView = import 'LrPhotoPictureView'
    local photo = catalog:getTargetPhoto()
    local pictureView = LrPhotoPictureView.makePhotoPictureView{
          width = 400, height = 400, photo = photo,
    local result = LrDialogs.presentFloatingDialog {
        title = "Thumbnail test",
        background_color = LrColor ("white"), -- required for (uncolored) static_text display, else inside of box is black and so can't see black text.
        contents = vf:column {
            vf:static_text {
                title = photo:getFormattedMetadata ("fileName"),
            pictureView,
            --vf:edit_field { - no sirve, presumably keystrokes are not trapped by box.
            --    bind_to_object = prefs,
            --    value = app:getGlobalPrefBinding( 'tempForTest' ),
            vf:push_button {
                title = "Click me",
                action = function( button )
                    app:show{ info="Pushed" } -- glorified call to LrDialogs.presentModalDialog - works.
                end,
    -- LrDialogs( app:getGlobalPref( 'tempForTest' ), result ) -- no sirve.
end )
Enjoy!
Rob

Answer 1

jarnoh wrote:
there is no way to activate previously opened dialog?
I assume that to be the case, and so it takes a moment to come up if there is much contents.
jarnoh wrote:
Doesn't seem to be really useful
For me, it would be very useful, if it was reliable, but so far, not so good.
UPDATE: Bug I thought was in non-modal dialog is also in modal dialog (scrolled_view must not be followed by another components in tabbed container - see comments in code below):
LrFunctionContext.postAsyncTaskWithContext( "tt", function( context )
    local props = LrBinding.makePropertyTable( context )
    props.tv = 0
    local vi = {
        vf:tab_view {
            vf:tab_view_item {
                identifier = "t1",
                title = "T1",
                vf:static_text {
                    title = "temp1"
            vf:tab_view_item {
                identifier = "t2",
                title = "T2",
                vf:scrolled_view {
                    vf:slider {
                        bind_to_object = props,
                        value = LrView.bind( 'tv' ),        
                -- with this here, Lr crashes after adjusting slider and then switching tabs - comment it out, and all is well:
                --vf:static_text {
                --    title = "this cant be here",
    LrDialogs.presentModalDialog {
        title = "test",
        contents = vf:view( vi )
end )
R
Message was edited by: Rob Cole