I know what a singleton is, but while walking through a web-app, my co-worker said "singleton-modeless". What does he mean by this?
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A:
Well a modeless form is the opposite of a modal form.
modeless form
Allows you to change the focus from form to form.
modal form
Disallows focus change until the modal form is closed.
That being said, singleton modeless must mean a single instance of a modeless form.
Andrew Hare
2009-06-16 20:06:01
Downvoters: please leave a reason.
Andrew Hare
2009-06-16 20:24:11
+1 for logical thinking. Some downvoters will do so on answers that are not definitive, btw.
Robert S.
2009-06-16 20:48:28
Interesting. Thanks for this. :) I'm sure it'll help him - it helped me.
Zack
2009-06-16 20:50:26
Surely every instance is a single instance: the "singleton" implies that only one instance can exist at a time (within some scope - the application, I'd guess).I've always hated modal dialogs and windows: almost all of the examples I've seen don't really need to be modal.
cheduardo
2009-06-16 21:56:40
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A:
I found a reference to it in the MSDN Architecture Center here. They appear to mean a window that is not modal (in other words, the user is not forced to interact with it before interacting with its parent) and where only one instance of it exists.
I'm not sure if that's what you're co-worker meant but I wouldn't feel bad about not knowing what he meant. He may not have actually known himself.
Cameron
2009-06-16 20:11:02