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I'm just trying to understand how a GUI works inside a function
& about GUI's in general. Obviously, I'm a little confused

What I would like to do is pretty simple (I thought)

1. Main program calls a function that creates a GUI
2. Have MAIN program wait until function finishes execution (of course)
3. Have GUI function prompt user for a numeric value
4. Have GUI function prompt user to select a date
5. Display both values inside the GUI function
6. Return the numeric value to the main program

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?? WHY WON'T THE FOLLOWING WORK?????

I believe your trying to make your Gui function Modal; similar to the way Msgbox & InputBox work. Although there isn't a built in method to accomplish this.. there are numerous workarounds.

Thank you ever so much for replying. I appreciate the time you spent crafting an example, however, I remain just as confused as before.

Perhaps it would have been better if you (or someone) were to explain how MY CODE was wrong. While there are numerous "tips" in YOUR code that I am eager to learn, your code example is so very dissimilar from mine that I'm having difficulty understanding its relevance -- and more importantly -- how it can be functionally implemented in MY code.

What MY code attempts (however naïvely) is to call a function that creates two separate GUI boxes (one for numeric input and another for a date value) and then to return the user's input to each of these GUI's back to the calling routine.

Please tell me how MY code is in error.

The main problem in your original code (although you may run into other issues later when/if adding to a larger script) is that the Gui, Show command does not wait for user actions before continuing to process the next line of code. In other words, creating a Gui window within a function does not create a special instance of a Gui window that will cause the function to wait until the Gui window has been destroyed before returning. In this case, processing continues on the next line by falling into the ButtonOk: label and continues processing from there until it hits a Return line (or the end of the function). In a function, any Return line will cause the function to return and continue processing at the next line after the function call. Although the ButtonOk: label has been added within the function, it has not been made unique to the function (try creating another ButtonOk: label somewhere else in the script) and will not prevent the function from returning if a return line is encountered before processing the code for the label. I hope this info helps a bit .

@ Daniel2

Excellent piece of coding...

@ SxFtSxInch

Quite the reverse. You need to tailor your code to match the template provided by Daniel2, which provides very nicely, the solution you requested.

Regards Dave.

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Not a bad suggestion... but I'm guessing that that would probably tend to take the fun and purpose out of trying to learn how...

I just wanted to let you all know that this post is still useful. I ran into a similar problem as the OP did (I was just trying to pop a Help screen up) and rather than using a MsgBox, which I probably should have, I made another Gui window.

Thanks for the smart coding.