Re: [Pythoncard-users] Proper way to invoke child window

John Henry wrote:
>What's the proper way to pass parameters to child
>window?
>
>For instance, if I do:
>
>cw=model.childWindow(self, childWindowClass(a, b))
>
>and it appears I can't expect that the __init__
>routine in childWindowClass be:
>
>class childWindowClass(model.Background):
>    def __init__(self, a, b):
>
>So, what exactly should I create childWindowClass
>with?  I've been doing it with no parameters and then
>try to set the parameters of the child window
>afterwards but that's really ugly.
>
>How should I pass parameters to a childWindow?


You can't, as far as I know. It would be a nice feature
to add, but you can have the child window
request data from the parent via self.getParent().

Also, you can't use __init__ for PythonCard classes, you
have to use on_initialize; I recall that was due to
timing issues but someone else can probably explain
better.