# Opening a Natural Dialog from a program **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux, Natural-on-Windows-Unix\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706 "2006-03-24T03:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/1 "2006-03-24T03:15:10Z")
Is there a way to open a Natural Dialog, or more specifically a GUI popup window from a Natural program. The Messagebox appears to be a GUI window and this can be run from a Natural program so I thought there might be a way to do this with other GUI windows. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/2 "2006-03-24T21:44:49Z")
Of course, the OPEN DIALOG statement does this for you šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Weihnachtsbar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/weihnachtsbar/32/146_2.png) [@Weihnachtsbar](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Weihnachtsbar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 12:10pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/3 "2006-03-27T12:10:50Z")
> [@Wolfgang Winter](#): > > Of course, the OPEN DIALOG statement does this for you šŸ˜‰ Can you give more details calling from a PROGRAM: What do you use as PARENT parameter? How do you get over the ā€œNAT6157 Dialog called from non-gui environmentā€? With 6.1 I know only the possibility calling via STACK TOP COMMAND. ---
**Author:** ![Wilfried\_B](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/wilfried_b/32/83_2.png) [@Wilfried\_B](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Wilfried_B)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/4 "2006-03-27T12:35:25Z")
You have to initiate your session with a dialog if you want to open a dialog with OPEN DIALOG. The initial dialog should call your starting program and then you can do everything you want to as a GUI context has been set up. ---
**Author:** ![Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Henrik_Hermansen1)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/5 "2006-03-27T14:44:22Z")
If you donā€™t mind leaving your current program you can use the stack command: STACK TOP COMMAND ā€˜Prognameā€™ ---
**Author:** ![Weihnachtsbar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/weihnachtsbar/32/146_2.png) [@Weihnachtsbar](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Weihnachtsbar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/6 "2006-03-27T15:28:32Z")
> [@Henrik Hermansen](#): > > If you donā€™t mind leaving your current program you can use the stack command: > STACK TOP COMMAND ā€˜Prognameā€™ ā€¦ and come back (old NAT1.x way to make loops) STACK TOP COMMAND \*PROGRAM STACK TOP COMMAND ā€˜myDialogā€™ STOP :roll: ---
**Author:** ![Weihnachtsbar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/weihnachtsbar/32/146_2.png) [@Weihnachtsbar](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Weihnachtsbar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/7 "2006-03-27T15:32:05Z")
[quote="Wilfried B ---
**Author:** ![Chofo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/chofo/32/119_2.png) [@Chofo](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Chofo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/8 "2006-03-27T21:50:24Z")
Hi, i do this with this instruction: Run ā€˜Dialog Nameā€™ works very niceā€¦ (not necesary parameters) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/9 "2006-03-28T03:52:16Z")
Thanks for all your help. The OPEN DIALOG statement did not work for me ā€“ I get the 6157 error. The STACK would certainly work but difficult in the application I have in mind. The RUN statement ā€“ I will have to try this one ā€“ I had not thought of it. I ultimately rewrote the Program as a Dialog but did not display any GUI screen ā€“ from there I was able to display the GUI popup window I had originally intended. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Wilfried\_B](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/wilfried_b/32/83_2.png) [@Wilfried\_B](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Wilfried_B)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/10 "2006-03-30T12:08:32Z")
[quote="Weihnachtsb ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/11 "2006-03-31T04:34:37Z")
Thanks Wilfried. That will be useful next time I have this problem. I am working on a legacy system so this will occur again. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/opening-a-natural-dialog-from-a-program/60706/12 "2021-04-02T14:40:31Z")