| Re: Status Window [message #40518] |
Fri, 13 August 2004 17:45 |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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Lloyd Watkin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For my phd I'm updating some old f60 code to idl. Something I've been
> looking about for information on is how I can have a window where I
> can post status messages.
>
> In other words I'd like to divert all my print statments from the
> output log window to a window. This is because I hope to distribute
> the code with the IDL VM to other users when it's complete/nearly
> complete to see what features people would like added/improved.
>
> Any ideas on how I'd go about this. Preferrably I'd like to have
> something where I could use commands similar to:
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> statuswindow, "Calculations Starting", /newline
> statuswindow, /resetwindow
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> etc, and obviously I'd need it to remain "on top". If anyone could
> pass on any advice or point me in the right direction I would be very
> grateful.
I wrote something alone these lines when porting a console only IDL
program to the VM. It is basically a drop in replacement for PRINT with
some object setup and cleanup that you need to handle at the beginning
and end of program execution.
This is the spot where I would put the link to it but I'm just finishing
up a big server migration and all of our user webpages are offline. If
you are interested I can send you the file directly.
-Rick
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| Re: Status Window [message #40527 is a reply to message #40518] |
Fri, 13 August 2004 07:35  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Lloyd Watkin writes:
> For my phd I'm updating some old f60 code to idl. Something I've been
> looking about for information on is how I can have a window where I
> can post status messages.
>
> In other words I'd like to divert all my print statments from the
> output log window to a window. This is because I hope to distribute
> the code with the IDL VM to other users when it's complete/nearly
> complete to see what features people would like added/improved.
>
> Any ideas on how I'd go about this. Preferrably I'd like to have
> something where I could use commands similar to:
>
> statuswindow, "Calculations Starting", /newline
> statuswindow, /resetwindow
>
> etc, and obviously I'd need it to remain "on top". If anyone could
> pass on any advice or point me in the right direction I would be very
> grateful.
Well, if you changed your ideal commands to these:
statuswindow -> Newline, 'Calculations Starting'
statuswindow -> Reset
You might have a chance of making some progress. :-)
I would write this status window thing as an object-widget.
(Another way of thinking of this is a compound widget,
written as an object.) Then you could write it once
and use it in any of your programs. I have such a
thing in my Catalyst Library, and it works great.
Probably won't be able to write this code in the
GUI Builder, though. :-)
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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