Re: emacs forms input

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

* 2010-08-04 11:53 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote:

> Now, if you want to abstract the implementation between graphical and
> text interface it could be a function like this:
>
>     (defun my-dialog (title item-alist)
>       (if (display-popup-menus-p)
>           (x-popup-dialog t (cons title item-alist) nil)
>         (let ((tmm-completion-prompt (concat title "\n\n")))
>           (tmm-prompt (list "" (cons "" item-alist))))))

Perhaps I should add that if you use C-g (keyboard-quit) or close the
dialog box using window's close button that causes a quit signal and the
function nor its callers won't return. Here's a new version which will
catch the quit signal and, if that happens, return nil:

    (defun my-dialog (title item-alist)
      (condition-case nil
          (if (display-popup-menus-p)
              (x-popup-dialog t (cons title item-alist) nil)
            (let ((tmm-completion-prompt (concat title "\n\n")))
              (tmm-prompt (list "" (cons "" item-alist)))))
        (quit nil)))