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Re: Does a Dialog need a Frame?

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From: Rich Downing
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:00
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"Thomas Wynne" <twynne@entropy.uark.edu> wrote:

>    Does anybody know why a Dialog has to have a Frame to be created?  For
>example, I have three classes,
>class A, B, and C.
>
>Class A is my main class, it does my initializing and database stuff.  It
>also has a frame with a menu item that calls the dialog in Class B.
>
>Class B dialog is called with 'this' as the frame parameter.  The this, is
>referring to the frame in class A.
>
>In my Class B dialog, I make another call to Class C which brings up yet
>another dialog.  But to create Dialog C, I had create a bogus frame in class
>B to pass as a parameter.
>
>So to generalize the question, does anybody know why a dialog must have a
>frame, and, is the way that I am doing it consistent with everybody else's
>methods, or have I just found a way to do it which is going to get me into
>some trouble in the future.  Thanks in advance.
>Thomas Wynne

Haven't tried this, but couldn't you just save this "this" from Class
A in a variable in Class B, and then just pass that same value to
Class C?

Regards,

Rich

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