Re: no drag events in cw_fslider or widget_slider [message #45500] |
Tue, 13 September 2005 10:10 |
Haje Korth
Messages: 651 Registered: May 1997
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Yes, they do indeed and it's pretty darn cool... Haje
"David Fanning" <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d90a39f27a33fe7989a7c@news.frii.com...
> David Fanning writes:
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>> I think your only option is to write a nice letter
>> to Mr Gates. Windows just don't do it! :-)
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> Whoops! That letter must have been a dynamite one!
> It appears DRAG events *do* work in IDL 6.2 on Windows.
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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Re: no drag events in cw_fslider or widget_slider [message #45521 is a reply to message #45520] |
Mon, 12 September 2005 16:27  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724 Registered: August 2001
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jbattat@cfa.harvard.edu writes:
> I find that I do not get events when dragging the slider bar in either
> a widget_slider or a cw_fslider widget despite setting the /DRAG flag.
> I am using IDL 5.4 on Windows XP.
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> For both widgets, I do get events if I:
> (1) click in the scroll bar
> (2) click the right or left arrows at the ends of the scroll bar
> (3) release the mouse after dragging the slider
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> Incidentally, in the cw_fslider widget, the slider does not move when I
> click the left or right scroll arrows on the slider (this is not the
> case in the widget_slider widget).
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> I just ran the same code on a UNIX machine and I DO see continuous
> events while dragging (using both cw_fslider and widget_slider). So it
> may be a problem or incorrect setting on my Windows system. Is there a
> setting that needs to be updated in Windows for drag events to work?
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> Any advice out there on how to ensure that I get continuous events as
> the slider is dragged?
I think your only option is to write a nice letter
to Mr Gates. Windows just don't do it! :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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