| Cleaning up a TEXT WIDGET [message #1874] |
Tue, 22 March 1994 13:19 |
zawodny
Messages: 121
Registered: August 1992
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Hi,
I'm running the latest version of IDL on a DECStation 3000/400AXP under
OSF/1 and the window manager is Motif based.
I have an editable text widget created with the WIDGET_TEXT(...,/edit)
function. After the user edits the contents of the text field, I reformat the
entry and write it back out via the WIDGET_CONTROL,value=... proceedure.
Afterward I assign the input focus to another widget. These are my questions:
How do I get rid of the I-beam and carrot ^ that get left in the text field of
widget the user just edited? How do I get the highlighted (colered in my case
with a bright yellow) border of the text field to return to "normal"? Naively,
I would have expected widget_control,/input_focus,some_other_widget_ID to have
done a bit more than just move the mouse cursor. The way it is now, the
display looks trashy and aside from reformatting the text field, there is no
way to visually inform the user that their changes to the text field have been
accepted.
In my opinion, the widget should become highlighted and the I-beam text
cursos should appear when the widget is first clicked on. Everything should
return to "normal" after the carriage return (or whatever else your keying on)
is pressed. Furthermore, it would be nice if reassigning input focus to
another widget, say a button, would cause that widget to become highlighted.
Is this within the control of IDL or is this a "problem" or limitaion
of the windowing system?
Enlighten me, Please.
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Joseph M. Zawodny (KO4LW) NASA Langley Research Center
Internet: zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov MS-475, Hampton VA, 23681-0001
Packet: ko4lw@n4hog.va.usa
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