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Re: updating a different widget from the event handler [message #29957 is a reply to message #29954]

Tue, 26 March 2002 09:16

Robert Stockwell
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Registered: October 2001

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David Fanning wrote:

> David Higgins (dmh@medphysics.leeds.ac.uk) writes:
>
>
>> I have set up my first ever GUI and it runs ok. I have a "Browse"
>> button and a text widget for a file path. I would like to have the
>> file path appear in the text widget after clicking on Browse and
>> choosing a file. Getting the path is easy (I named it "newpath"), but
>> how to update the text widget (which is called "source") is beyond me.
>>
>> I tried
>> widget_control, source, set_value=newpath
>> but the event handler has never heard of "source"...it thinks it's an
>> undefined variable. Is there an easy solution?
>>
>
> Ah, well. This is the trick in widget programs, isn't it?
> You need to get information which you have over there, over
> here where you need it.
>
> The answer is a common block.

lol, thanks for making me choke on my coffee!

-bob

> No, just kidding. :-)

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		Re: updating a different widget from the event handler By: dmh on Wed, 27 March 2002 03:32
		Re: updating a different widget from the event handler By: James Kuyper on Tue, 26 March 2002 09:49
		Re: updating a different widget from the event handler By: Robert Stockwell on Tue, 26 March 2002 09:16
		Re: updating a different widget from the event handler By: David Fanning on Tue, 26 March 2002 06:39

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