How tu use dialog

Dialog is a base class in Dynamics AX. Use the dialog class to create simple dialog forms at run time. Here is an example:

Dialog      dialog;
DialogField field;
;
 
dialog = new Dialog("My Dialog"); 
field  = dialog.addField(typeId(EmplId)); // add EmplId field
 
dialog.run(); // show
 
if (dialog.closedOK())
{
    info(field.value());
}

[edit] Dynamic dialog

Initiated by this newsgroup posting I've written a class that for dynamic dialogs. You provide a list with types, and the dialog will contain all necessary fields. Use the method parmFieldList() to get the field values.

/**
 * Use this class to create a dialog with dynamic content.
 */
class CustomDialog extends Dialog
{
  List fieldList; /* list of dynamically create dialog fields */
 
  /** 
   * The dialog will contain fields for all types in the typeList 
   * Field description is taken per default from the extended datatype
   */
  void new(List    typeList,
           Caption _caption = '',
           Object  _caller  = null,
           str     _parmstr = '',
           Form    _form    = new Form(formStr(Dialog))
           )
  {
    ListEnumerator enum;
    ;
 
    if(typeList == null) 
      error("List of types must not be null");
 
    super(_caption,_caller,_parmStr,_form);
 
    fieldList = new List(Types::Class);
    enum      = typeList.getEnumerator();
 
    while(enum.moveNext())
    {
      fieldList.addEnd(this.addField(enum.current()));
    }
  }
  
  /**
   * Use this method to get the values entered in the dialog
   * @return Reference to the fieldList if instantiated.
   */
  public List parmFieldList()
  {
    return fieldList;
  }
}

The class is easy to use

static void testDynamicDialog(Args _args)
{
  CustomDialog   diag;
  List           types = new List(Types::Integer); // typeId is an integer
  List           fields;
  ListEnumerator enum;
  DialogField    field;
  ;
 
  // the dialog shall contain fields for the following types
  types.addEnd(typeId(EmplId));
  types.addEnd(typeId(Itemid));
  types.addEnd(typeId(ProdId));
  types.addEnd(typeId(CustAccount));
 
  // crate and show
  diag = new CustomDialog(types,"Dynamic Dialog");
  diag.run();
 
  // show values in the Infolog
  fields = diag.parmFieldList();
  enum   = fields.getEnumerator();
 
  while(enum.moveNext())
  {
    field = enum.current();
    info(field.value());
  }
}