How to make a dialog 'fail to open'?

[Jurko Gospodnetić]

   Hi.

>  Call EndDialog() then. But IME usually a dialog is used either as a modal
> one or a modeless one, not both.

   *nod*... just thinking out loud there... In my concrete use-case an 
exception throw is good enough for me and this is just a theoretical 
exercise :-). I was just trying to see if it can be done without an 
exception and since whether a dialog is being opened as a modal or 
modeless is a choice made from the outside then it seemed smelly if the 
dialog has to know which way it got opened in order to prevent itself 
from being opened.

   I guess EndDialog() solves that problem. :-))) However, I did not 
find it anywhere in the documentation. Had to grep through the sources 
to find it.


> JG>    I tried calling event.Skip() and then event.StopPropagation() to 
> JG> prevent the default handler from getting called but that did not work.
> 
>  I don't understand how do you expect it to: the dialog is not being opened
> by the default event handler, it's opened by your own code.

   From looking at the sources I gathered thought that if there was no 
event handler found that that would cause the dialog not to open since 
the ProcessEvent() call would return false. Now I looked more closely 
and saw I was wrong (wxWindowBase::InitDialog() ignores the 
ProcessEvent() result).

   Thanks for the help!

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetić