Window focus and boolean button, C#

To David and the Development team,

I don't know if this is of interest but I've noticed an odd behavior with the boolean button when used in conjunction with a MessageBox.Show.

The toggle unfortunately doesn't revert to a false state until the window focus comes back to the GH canvas - which is delayed when ever a system window is triggered. This wouldn't normally be an issue but that the button is being used to trigger a process and if warnings are generated for users the button won't return to off.

I don't know if this is a behavior that you know of a work around for but if you do I would be grateful. I've tried various caching methods to no avail.

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Permalink Reply by Raul Matagringo on June 1, 2015 at 1:26am

Hi,

a normal message box will always block your main.

Be aware of: Test_Form.ShowDialog(); // <--- focus is on Test_Form

And:

Test_Form Test_Form = new Test_Form(this); // Declare new instance...

Test_Form.Show(this);  // <--- Test_form wont block Main...

Permalink Reply by Tree on June 1, 2015 at 1:43pm

Thanks Raul!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on June 1, 2015 at 2:03am

As Raul said, modal windows hog all events so the button never gets to see the mouseup. The button can probably be improved a bit on my end, on your end you can choose to use modeless means of feedback, or only show the modal messages some time after the button press.

Permalink Reply by Tree on June 1, 2015 at 1:42pm

David - thanks for this.

btw: I think it would be a beneficial improvement to make for a future version.

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