Re: [TxMt] tm_dialog: call a other tm_dialog from tm_dialog without closing the first

On 6. Aug 2007, at 14:00, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

[...] If I invoke it via

"$DIALOG" -a the_nib

the dialog appears. Then I call (my token is 3)

"$DIALOG" -w 3

the dialog/TM hangs. The dialog (a panel) doesn't accept any event. I only can press APPLE+. to cancel. As a window it returns (async) Window 3: error 1

It hangs because -w will make "$DIALOG" stall until an action is performed in the window, but since you run it from TM, the main thread (in TM) will wait for your command to finish, and thus block the UI.

Try instead run it in a shell -- in practice you’d run it in a command that detaches.