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Re: GUI parameter passing :NEWBIE [message #40245]

Fri, 23 July 2004 07:05

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Kevin writes:

> First off I'm a NEWBIE to IDL application programming.

Oh, well, you are welcome here, too. :-)

> I'm developing a GUI application in IDL. All I want to do is pass
> variables from one Dialog window to another, but can not figure out
> how to do this. For example GUI1 has a BUTTON Widget and in the
> ONButtonPress event handler I call GUI2 (GUI2,GROUP=Event.top) which
> launches GUI2, however I need to pass some values from GUI1 so that
> they can be inserted into GUI2's text widgets.

Oh, oh. You aren't using the GUI Builder, are you?
You won't learn how to write widget programs that way. :-(

How about calling GUI2 like this:

GUI2, GROUP=event.top, STUFF=bunchOfStuff

Cheers,

David

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