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The guards are now as proposed by Ivan, i.e. the buttons are disabled if the corresponding field is empty.
Also a label link button has been added.

here are the changes: http://redmine.blackboxframework.org/pr ... e894eb3631.

- Josef

I was think not such simple check, but with Meta.Lookup.

I made some demo.
http://blackboxframework.org/unstable/i ... a1.426.zip

Why do you want to make a more complicated check?

Josef Templ wrote:Why do you want to make a more complicated check?

It is helping to check are the Notifier, Guard and Link procedures/variables existing.

Ivan Denisov wrote:

Josef Templ wrote:Why do you want to make a more complicated check?

It is helping to check are the Notifier, Guard and Link procedures/variables existing.

No it doesn't help.
It might be possible that I would like to add a new Guard or a new Notifier.
Why should it not open the module via ... where I would like to insert them?
-Helmut

Ivan Denisov wrote:

Josef Templ wrote:Why do you want to make a more complicated check?

It is helping to check are the Notifier, Guard and Link procedures/variables existing.

In some situations this might be very annoying.
If you make changes to the sources you would always have to recompile and reload
the module in order to work with Meta. Same problem if you have a new and incomplete module.

With the empty string approach you never depend on the code but only on the sources.
It is not only simpler to program but also simpler to use.

- Josef

The button labels are now changed from '...' to '>'.
Also error messages have been added if Strings is not found or if the key is not found.
Meta has been removed.

- Josef

I agree with Helmut, that the module can be opened even if the procedure does not exist. However the module should exists. This can be checked with Meta. I do not understand why Josef removed Meta from issue without any discussion.

Dear Center members, we need more attention and discussion here. According our rules if two members do not agree with me, they can ask to start voting without discussion. However I am sure this feature is touching the interface, so it should be discussed well.

Try with Meta check for Guards and Notifiers (the same can be made for Link):
http://blackboxframework.org/unstable/i ... a1.426.zip

Without check:
http://blackboxframework.org/unstable/i ... a1.428.zip

After Helmut comment I am suggesting some middle version with module existence check only.

Guards and Notifier always called in the background and should not check if the file exist.
It will be better to stay at Josef's solution, because it is more efficient.
If an module doesn't exit, just write an error message to the log windows after clicking on [>] .
That is enough. We need no more checks.
- Helmut

Zinn wrote:Guards and Notifier always called in the background and should not check if the file exist.
It will be better to stay at Josef's solution, because it is more efficient.
If an module doesn't exit, just write an error message to the log windows after clicking on [>] .
That is enough. We need no more checks.

So like in Control -> New form... dialog it should be message that module not found.