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WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #552345]

Wed, 11 August 2010 19:41

Page Mising name

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Hi,

In WizardDialog::finishPressed() method, it calls hardClose() method to close the wizard dialog when perform finish is done.

If I have a wizard that doesn't want to close the dialog after finish is pressed, is there a way to configure that? Or do I have to override this finishPressed() method?

Thanks for the help!
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Re: WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #553428 is a reply to message #552345]

Tue, 17 August 2010 14:00

Jon Svede

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I don't know the answer to your question, but I am wondering why you don't add a wizard page to your wizard that handles your tasks prior to the actual finish?

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Re: WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #553682 is a reply to message #553428]

Wed, 18 August 2010 13:42

Page Mising name

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Thanks for your reply.

Here is our user case. The wizard contains several pages (depending on what kind of object it is creating), the first page lists all the possible types to be created. After all required fields are filled, user can click the finish button to create the selected type.

After creation, user wants the wizard to go back to the first wizard page to create another object.

By default, finish button will dismiss the dialog. So user has to re-launch the wizard again, which is inconvenient.

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Re: WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #553751 is a reply to message #553682]

Wed, 18 August 2010 17:18

Jon Svede

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Thanks. I'd think you had have to dig into the platform code - is there any use case in Eclipse itself that does this? You could use plugin spy to deduce the classes and see how it's done.

Some other ideas:

Could you instead use a popup to ask if they want to add another object? Presumably it's a finite number of objects and eventually they'll select 'no'. if they select 'yes' re-launch the wizard?

Another idea would be to simply keep launching the wizard until they click cancel. So in that case they would click 'finish' and the code that called wizard in the first place runs on a loop until they click 'finish' and then click 'cancel' on the resultant wizard.

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Re: WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #554491 is a reply to message #553682]

Mon, 23 August 2010 11:27

Prakash G.R.

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On 18/08/10 7:12 PM, Page wrote:
> Here is our user case. The wizard contains several pages (depending on
> what kind of object it is creating), the first page lists all the
> possible types to be created. After all required fields are filled, user
> can click the finish button to create the selected type.
> After creation, user wants the wizard to go back to the first wizard
> page to create another object.

Clicking Finish goes back to the first page? So how does the user gets
out of the wizard?

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Re: WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #554840 is a reply to message #553751]

Tue, 24 August 2010 14:07

Page Mising name

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Thanks.

So far I have not found any Eclipse wizards that do that.

I will dig into the code a little more

I will also try your suggestions and see how end user feels.

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Re: WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #554841 is a reply to message #554491]

Tue, 24 August 2010 14:09

Page Mising name

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Hi Prakash,

We are thinking to rename the "Cancel" button to "Close" button and user will use this button to exit the wizard.

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Re: WizardDialog's finish button - Don't want to close dialog after finish button is pressed [message #554977 is a reply to message #554841]

Wed, 25 August 2010 03:36

Prakash G.R.

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On 24/08/10 7:39 PM, Page wrote:
> We are thinking to rename the "Cancel" button to "Close" button and user
> will use this button to exit the wizard.

Its best to give the users the same buttons with the same functionality
to ensure consistency. Instead of changing Finish/Cancel, why can't you
just add a 'Create' button? WizardDialog.createButtonsForButtonBar()
should be helpful to do that

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