AFXDialogStep

To create a dialog step, you must supply the procedure, a dialog box, and, optionally, a prompt for the prompt line. If you do not supply a prompt, Abaqus uses a default prompt of Fill out the dialog box title dialog. The following is an example of a dialog step in a single step procedure:

def getFirstStep(self):

    db = PlateDB(self)
    prompt = 'Enter plate dimensions in the dialog box'
    return AFXDialogStep(self, db, prompt)

In most cases a procedure will have more than one step. Since a procedure has the ability to back up to previous steps, you must write procedures that do not construct dialog boxes more than once during the procedure. You can prevent a procedure from constructing dialog boxes more than once by initializing procedure members and then checking the members during getNextStep, as shown in the following example:

def getFirstStep(self):

    self.plateWidthDB = None
    self.plateHeightDB = None
    db = PlateNameDB(self)
    self.step1 = AFXDialogStep(self, db)
    return self.step1

def getNextStep(self, previousStep):

    if previousStep == self.step1: 
        if not self.plateWidthDB:
            self.plateWidthDB = PlateWidthDB(self)
        self.step2 = AFXDialogStep(self, self.plateWidthDB)
        return self.step2

    elif previousStep == self.step2:
        if not self.plateHeightDB:
            self.plateHeightDB = PlateHeightDB(self) 
        self.step3 = AFXDialogStep(self, self.plateHeightDB)
        return self.step3

    else:
        return None