Thanx Richard for this reply.

Dont wat to sound too daft, how do I;

override method onClick of the pushbutton???

Cheers

-------------------------------------------------------------- Graeme Kirton IT Developer Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd

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"Richard A. DeVenezia" To: <Graeme.Kirton@filcs.com> <radevenz@ix.netc cc: om.com> Subject: Fw: AF Frame control

09/04/03 12:47

Richard A. DeVenezia, http://www.devenezia.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.sas Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:45 PM Subject: Re: AF Frame control

> <Graeme.Kirton@FILCS.COM> wrote in message > news:OFCD31DB26.C2A8DBCA-ON80256D01.004F1D8C-80256D01.004F778B@filcs.com... > > Richard I dont understand how this helps, as I can still close the calling > > frame, both ways work the same? > > > > Graeme: > > Your right, it doesn't help... in a stand alone frame. > The way a standalone frame handles events is certainly somewhat annoying and > anti-intuitive. > Suppose you have a frame with a pushbutton and code block > > pushbutton1: > submit continue; > proc insight data=sashelp.class; > run; > endsubmit; > return; > > AF will run insight, apparently in a separate thread, because you can close > the frame an insight is still running. > Even more peculiar, suppose you clicked the button three times and closed > the frame. AF 'stacks' up the submit continues and thus when you close > insight, another will pop up and when you close that another pops up and > finally you can close the third one. > > As Randy pointed out, deactivating controls so you can't inadvertantly > 'stack' up a proc insight is wise, but you can't easily disable the X > button, you would need to have a term section that tries to determine if > insight is still running (which isn't real easy either) > > Experimentation shows that the following does work and modally blocks the > frame until the proc insight completes (i.e. is exited by the user) > suppose your frame is work.graeme.insight.frame > > 1. do not have a code section in the frame scl > 2. use property editor to override method onClick of the pushbutton. > in SCL work.graeme.insightmethods.scl use > onClick: method; > submit continue; > proc insight data=sashelp.class; > run; > endsubmit; > endmethod; > > When you run the frame and click on the push button, insight will launch and > the frame will not respond to anything until insight is exited. > > For good measure you can tweak some visuals and get the data set name from a > frame variable > > frame.scl > --- > init: > insightTable = 'sashelp.class'; > return; > > framemethods.scl > --- > onclick: method; > _frame_.backgroundColor = 'Secondary Background'; > _self_._gray(); > > _frame_._getCharVar ('insightTable', data); > > submit continue; > proc insight data=sashelp.class; > run; > endsubmit; > _self_._ungray(); > _frame_.backgroundColor = 'Background'; > endmethod; > > -- > Richard A. DeVenezia, http://www.devenezia.com > >

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