modalframe_close_dialog() does not work on node edit

Have you tried attaching your submit callback to $form['buttons']['submit']['#submit'] ? If that does not work, then there may be some other module doing something here...

I know it works. The Node Relationships module uses it with no troubles (browse its code and search for "noderelationships_child_node_form_submit").

I have not documented this because it's a particular case with the node form. Modal Frame method works. The problem is that the node module breaks the normal form processing flow. From my POV, this is one of those things that one should find by itself when using this API. It's not a feature of the API itself. Related, but not part of.

I wrote a page inthe handbooks for this API, and it can be found here:

http://drupal.org/node/700752

That's a page that can be edited by anyone, or maybe child pages can be created to enhance the basic documentation with this kind of experiences.

In your custom submission handler that calls modalframe_close_dialog(), you might want to also have: $form_state['redirect'] = FALSE;

It didn't work for me without that.

use $form['#redirect'] to redirect to page after submit

I was having this problem too, and figured out this:

http://drupal.org/project/save_edit module also causes this problem, when any of the buttons are displayed on the node form and the node form is displayed in the modal window.

For me it only worked in these conditions:

• submit handler is added to the button ($form['buttons']['submit']['#submit'][] = 'my_closing_submit')
• submit handler contains the following instructions in this order :
  

  $form_state['redirect'] = FALSE;
  modalframe_close_dialog();
  modalframe_child_js();

Lots of good solutions to this problem given here. Closing.