'visible' dialog not showing

[RickBollinger]

Hello again,

I must be missing something obvious. I create a dialog early on, and then later show it from a called function.

This creates it:

isc.Dialog.create({ ID:"NDAloginDialog",
	title:"Non-disclosure agreement required.",
	message : "Thank you for helping to try out...",
	icon:"[SKIN]warn.png",
	isModal:true,
	autoDraw:false,
	visibility:"hidden",
	showCloseButton:false,
	showModalMask:true,
    modalMaskOpacity:20,
	width:800,
//	height:200,
	buttons : [
	  isc.Button.create({ title:"<span style='color:Red;'>I DO NOT AGREE</span>", autoDraw:false, autoFit:true }),
	  isc.Button.create({ title:"<span style='color:Green;'>I AGREE</span>", autoDraw:false, autoFit:true })
	],
	buttonClick : function (button, index) {
		if (index == 0) {
			Application.destroy();
		} else {
			updateTeamMemberNDAstatus(Application.loggedInTeamMemberID, "I AGREE");
			this.hide();
		}
	}
});

This shows it:

if (teamMemberRecord.NDArequired) {
	m4_ifelse(m4_eval(debugPriority>=5),1,Log.logDebug("************* originalPW: " + originalPW);)
	if (originalPW == "NOT REQUIRED") {
		m4_ifelse(m4_eval(debugPriority>=5),1,Log.logDebug("************* calling updateTeamMemberNDAstatus ");)
		updateTeamMemberNDAstatus(teamMemberRecord.TeamMemberID, originalPW);
	} else { //
		m4_ifelse(m4_eval(debugPriority>=5),1,Log.logDebug("************* showing NDAloginDialog ");)
		//NDAloginDialog.draw();
		NDAloginDialog.show(); // NOTE: dialog destroys Application or just returns from modal.
		//NDAloginDialog.bringToFront();
	}
}

I have tried everything I could to get it to work. I have another instance where I use a model window that works fine when .show() is called from a button.

In the Develop Console Watch tab I can find the dialog. It is both 'Drawn' and 'Visible'. Yet, when I select it in the Watch tab, I only see a faint red square where it should be on top of the form calling for it.

Since the .show() call is asynchronous, it may be that other canvases that I draw after this code may have been drawn over it.

I will try more things in the morning when I have had my coffee.

Thanks,

Rick

P.S. I am running SmartClient Version: v8.3p_2014-06-27/EVAL on Mozilla Firefox 20.0 with Firebug using Windows 7 Premium 64 bit.

[RickBollinger]

Solution was to delay creation and showing of NDAloginDialog until application main window components were constructed but not yet shown. That way the modal dialog is shown on top of the login window. Of course, if the user is denied permission, then everything needs to be destroyed().