| Re: How to get actual widget size? [message #36674] |
Thu, 16 October 2003 12:54 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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David Yip writes:
> Say a user is resizing the base widget. They aren't really moving
> it but they have the mouse button depressed. My code explicitly
> changes the base widget size with widget_control. The widget obvious
> can't change since it's being overrode by the window manager. The
> problem is, when I do a widget_info call, the response I get is the
> size that I tried to set it to instead of the actual size. For
> example, the window is 300 pixels high. I try to change it to 600,
> but it doesn't change because the user is holding down the mouse
> button. When I query the size, IDL tells me it's 600 when in reality
> it's 300. How can I get a widget's real size and not what IDL thinks
> it is?
Say what!? The only way I know to get a resize event into
an event handler is *after* the resize takes place. How,
exactly, does this program of yours work? :-)
Cheers,
David
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