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Re: Focus [message #18250 is a reply to message #18130]

Wed, 08 December 1999 00:00

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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> Yura Beletsky wrote:
>
>> I wrote a widget program, where all calculations are carrying out by an
>> external Fortran-code and
>> then results are plotting by the IDL code. For the starting the
external
>> code I use SPAWN procedure.
>> When I start the program, focus switches to Fortran-code and then, when
>> calculations are finished, focus do not return to the IDL widget
program. I
>> see only IDLDE environment and in order to see the
>> results I have to switch to widget program manually. How to solve this
>> problem ? Is it possible to
>> return focus to the widget after finishing the external program ?

When SPAWN returns, call

widget_control, tlb, /SHOW

where tlb is the id of the widget program's top-level base.

As to why focus does not return to where you expect it, I have found focus
in IDLDE pretty quirky. It's never where you want it to be!

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

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