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Dialogs

A Dialog is a small temporary window of options presented to the user. The @bentley/ui-framework and @bentley/ui-core packages contain several classes and components for displaying modal and modeless dialogs.

  • ModalDialogManager - displays and manages multiple modal dialogs
  • ModelessDialogManager - displays and manages multiple modeless dialogs
  • ModelessDialog - Modeless Dialog React component uses the Dialog component with a modal={false} prop. It controls the z-index to keep the focused dialog above others.
  • Dialog - Dialog React component with optional resizing and moving functionality. Supports modal and modeless dialogs and supports a button cluster in the lower-right.

Sample Modal Dialog

The following sample shows a modal dialog with OK/Cancel buttons.

SampleModalDialog React component

This sample React component uses the Dialog component and sets up the buttons and necessary handlers to close the dialog properly.

import * as React from "react";
import { IModelApp } from "@bentley/imodeljs-frontend";
import { Dialog, DialogButtonType } from "@bentley/ui-core";

export interface SampleModalDialogProps {
  opened: boolean;
  onResult?: (result: DialogButtonType) => void;
}

export interface SampleModalDialogState {
  opened: boolean;
}

export class SampleModalDialog extends React.Component<SampleModalDialogProps, SampleModalDialogState> {
  public readonly state: Readonly<SampleModalDialogState>;
  private _title = IModelApp.i18n.translate("SampleApp:buttons.sampleModalDialog");

  constructor(props: SampleModalDialogProps) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      opened: this.props.opened,
    };
  }

  public render(): JSX.Element {
    return (
      <Dialog
        title={this._title}
        opened={this.state.opened}
        modal={true}
        width={450}
        height={300}
        onClose={this._handleCancel}
        onEscape={this._handleCancel}
        onOutsideClick={this._handleCancel}
        buttonCluster={[
          { type: DialogButtonType.OK, onClick: this._handleOK },
          { type: DialogButtonType.Cancel, onClick: this._handleCancel },
        ]}
      >
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      </Dialog >
    );
  }

  private _handleOK = () => {
    this._closeDialog(() => this.props.onResult && this.props.onResult(DialogButtonType.OK));
  };

  private _handleCancel = () => {
    this._closeDialog(() => this.props.onResult && this.props.onResult(DialogButtonType.Cancel));
  };

  private _closeDialog = (followUp: () => void) => {
    this.setState(
      { opened: false },
      () => followUp());
  };
}

Opening a Modal Dialog

The ModalDialogManager.openDialog function is called to open a modal dialog.

  ModalDialogManager.openDialog(
    <SampleModalDialog
      opened={true}
      onResult={(result) => this._handleModalResult(result)}
    />);

Handling Modal Dialog Close

The ModalDialogManager.closeDialog function is called to close a modal dialog.

  private _handleModalResult(result: DialogButtonType) {
    ModalDialogManager.closeDialog();
    IModelApp.notifications.outputMessage(
      new NotifyMessageDetails(OutputMessagePriority.Info, `Modal dialog result: ${result}`)
    );
  }

modal dialog

Sample Modeless Dialog

This sample React component uses the ModelessDialog component and sets up the necessary handlers to close the dialog properly.

import * as React from "react";
import { IModelApp } from "@bentley/imodeljs-frontend";
import { ModelessDialog } from "@bentley/ui-framework";

export interface SampleModelessDialogProps {
  opened: boolean;
  dialogId: string;
  onClose?: () => void;
}

export interface SampleModelessDialogState {
  opened: boolean;
}

export class SampleModelessDialog extends React.Component<SampleModelessDialogProps, SampleModelessDialogState> {
  public readonly state: Readonly<SampleModelessDialogState>;
  private _title = IModelApp.i18n.translate("SampleApp:buttons.sampleModelessDialog");

  constructor(props: SampleModelessDialogProps) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      opened: this.props.opened,
    };
  }

  public render(): JSX.Element {
    return (
      <ModelessDialog
        title={this._title}
        opened={this.state.opened}
        dialogId={this.props.dialogId}
        width={450}
        height={300}
        onClose={this._handleCancel}
        onEscape={this._handleCancel}
        onOutsideClick={this._handleCancel}
      >
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      </ModelessDialog >
    );
  }

  private _handleCancel = () => {
    this._closeDialog();
  };

  private _closeDialog = () => {
    this.setState(
      { opened: false },
      () => this.props.onClose && this.props.onClose()
    );
  };
}

Opening a Modeless Dialog

The ModelessDialogManager.openDialog function is called to open a modeless dialog.

  const dialogId = "sample";

  ModelessDialogManager.openDialog(
    <SampleModelessDialog
      opened={true}
      dialogId={dialogId}
      onClose={() => this._handleModelessClose(dialogId)}
    />, dialogId);

Handling Modeless Dialog Close

The ModelessDialogManager.closeDialog function is called to close a modeless dialog.

  private _handleModelessClose = (dialogId: string) => {
    ModelessDialogManager.closeDialog(dialogId);
    IModelApp.notifications.outputMessage(
      new NotifyMessageDetails(OutputMessagePriority.Info, `Closed modeless dialog: ${dialogId}`)
    );
  };

modeless dialog

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Last Updated: 11 June, 2024