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Best way to prevent deformed IDL widgets? [message #3754]

Tue, 14 March 1995 12:15

patterso
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Registered: February 1995

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I am using IDL to create some widgets for data handling. When I create the
window and place the widgets in it, IDL will stretch the last widget
in a row so that it matches the width of the window. This means for
instance, that if I try and put three buttons at the bottom of a wide
window such as PRINT USE and CLOSE I get:

| PRINT | | USE | | CLOSE |

with the close button being stretched out of shape.

Is it possible to either (a) stretch all buttons in proportion or
(b) prevent this stretching mechanism by a simple method (fixing the
size of the widgets directly makes it awkward to update at a later
date)

Thanks

Tim Patterson
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Re: Best way to prevent deformed IDL widgets? [message #3842 is a reply to message #3754]

Wed, 15 March 1995 13:30

patterso
Messages: 36
Registered: February 1995

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Doesn't XPDmenu just make pull down menus?

Ding Wu (dwu2@curly.cc.emory.edu) wrote:
: Use XPdMenu instead of WIDGET_BUTTON.

: Ding

: Tim Patterson (patterso@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu) wrote:
: : I am using IDL to create some widgets for data handling. When I create the
: : window and place the widgets in it, IDL will stretch the last widget
: : in a row so that it matches the width of the window. This means for
: : instance, that if I try and put three buttons at the bottom of a wide
: : window such as PRINT USE and CLOSE I get:

: : | PRINT | | USE | | CLOSE |

: : with the close button being stretched out of shape.

: : Is it possible to either (a) stretch all buttons in proportion or
: : (b) prevent this stretching mechanism by a simple method (fixing the
: : size of the widgets directly makes it awkward to update at a later
: : date)

: : Thanks

: : Tim Patterson
: : :

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Re: Best way to prevent deformed IDL widgets? [message #3844 is a reply to message #3754]

Tue, 14 March 1995 13:39

dwu2
Messages: 2
Registered: March 1995

Junior Member

Use XPdMenu instead of WIDGET_BUTTON.

Ding

Tim Patterson (patterso@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu) wrote:
: I am using IDL to create some widgets for data handling. When I create the
: window and place the widgets in it, IDL will stretch the last widget
: in a row so that it matches the width of the window. This means for
: instance, that if I try and put three buttons at the bottom of a wide
: window such as PRINT USE and CLOSE I get:

: | PRINT | | USE | | CLOSE |

: with the close button being stretched out of shape.

: Is it possible to either (a) stretch all buttons in proportion or
: (b) prevent this stretching mechanism by a simple method (fixing the
: size of the widgets directly makes it awkward to update at a later
: date)

: Thanks

: Tim Patterson
: :

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Re: Best way to prevent deformed IDL widgets? [message #3929 is a reply to message #3754]

Fri, 24 March 1995 02:05

Fergus Gallagher
Messages: 41
Registered: January 1995

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> Subject: Best way to prevent deformed IDL widgets?
> Date: 14 Mar 1995 20:15:04 GMT
> From: patterso@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Patterson)
> Organization: Cornell University
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave

> I am using IDL to create some widgets for data handling. When I create the
> window and place the widgets in it, IDL will stretch the last widget
> in a row so that it matches the width of the window. This means for
> instance, that if I try and put three buttons at the bottom of a wide
> window such as PRINT USE and CLOSE I get:

> | PRINT | | USE | | CLOSE |

> with the close button being stretched out of shape.

> Is it possible to either (a) stretch all buttons in proportion or
> (b) prevent this stretching mechanism by a simple method (fixing the
> size of the widgets directly makes it awkward to update at a later
> date)

The solution I use is to put the buttons in there own widget_base(). You will need
to give a size for this, unfortunately.

Fergus

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