Hey guys...

Does anyone have a very simple example of putting up a "stop" non-modal dialog, where the script puts that up, then stays alive (while Poser interface is available for user operation) until the stop button is clicked on?

I want to test out some things with a call-back function, but/so I need some way to:

1. set up the call-back
2. put up the "stop" dialog
3. let Poser ProcessSomeEvents() (or whatever) until...
4. user clicks on stop, so remove the call-back and exit the script.

...I just haven't done any interface/gui stuff at all yet, so I'm not sure of the simplest way to do this.

I dunno if this will work but its easy to try

    msg = " Wrong Figure Selected - select xxxxxxxxxx "
    mymsg = poser.DialogSimple.MessageBox(msg)

for poser 7 , puts up a message with an ok button only

I think that would be a modal dialog though.. right? (user can't do anything in Poser while it's up)

Non-modal dialogs can be made with Tkinter - after a fashion. I've never gotten Tkinter to behave predictably or reliably in Poser.
I think your best option would be to use the Poser Scripts palette (not the menu).

Yeah, I was just doing some searching and didn't find any 'non-modal' Poser dialog info, so they might all be modal.  Hrmf.  So, you're suggesting maybe two separate scripts?  One to install the callback and one to remove it?  I guess that could be done.

Maybe this will help to find a solution for your app:

import Tkinter as Tk

def stopPressed():
    # reset Poser events here
    app.cancel=True
    app.destroy()
    

app=Tk.Tk()
app.cancel=False
btn=Tk.Button(app,text="press to stop",command=stopPressed)
btn.pack()
app.update()

# Insert your standard app here.
# call app.update() from time to time and check
# app.cancel.

import math

for i in range(1000000) :
    # heavy work to do - the following makes no sense :)
    x=i*math.sin(i/100000.0)+math.acos(i/100000.0)
    app.update()
    if app.cancel : break
    
    for j in range(1000000) :
        y=x*math.cos(j/100000.0)

Thanks ADP - that should come in handy.

I think Ockham may be doing something like what you want in his Hansel script....