Is there a way to know if a dispatch command opens a dialog?

[Noel Grandin]

On 2018/08/02 9:57 AM, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 04:52:14PM +0530, Saurav Chirania <saurav.chir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are dispatch commands (like .uno:FontDialog) which open a dialog when
>> executed. There are other dispatch commands (like .uno:GoDown) which don't
>> open a dialog when executed. Do we have a function using which I can know
>> whether or not a command opens a dialog? If not, will it be possible to
>> implement such a function? Which parts of the code should I look into for
>> implementing such a function?
> 
> I don't think we have code for this at the moment. You could add a flag
> in the .sdi files for this purpose, but having to go through all
> commands in sdi files to add this annotation will be quite painful, I
> fear.
> 

Possible hack solution:

Create a thread_local bool flag, which is cleared on entry to the dispatch logic, and is set by the create-a-dialog logic.
On exit from the dispatch logic, check the flag and return true if the a dialog was created.

Note that there is more than one way to create a dialog, so this flag would need to be set in a handful of places.