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Re: Black Widgets Draw Window in d_plot2d and d_gridding [message #65562 is a reply to message #65558]

Sun, 08 March 2009 17:07

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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edwinretana@gmail.com writes:

> This is my first message here.
>
> When I try to run the programs d_plot2d.pro and d_gridding.pro the
> widget draw is all black,, I can see the sliders and bottons also when
> I press the new data botton nothing happens.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and Idl 7.06
>
> So there's a problem with my X server configuration or something
> else ?

Typically, you need to set RETAIN=2 for your
draw widgets on UNIX machines. When I create a draw
widget I usually write code like this:

IF N_Elements(retain) EQ 0 THEN $
retain=(!Version.OS_Family EQ 'Windows') ? 1 : 2
drawID = Widget_Draw(baseID, RETAIN=retain, ...)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Black Widgets Draw Window in d_plot2d and d_gridding By: R.Bauer on Tue, 10 March 2009 04:47
		Re: Black Widgets Draw Window in d_plot2d and d_gridding By: edwinretana on Sun, 08 March 2009 22:38
		Re: Black Widgets Draw Window in d_plot2d and d_gridding By: David Fanning on Sun, 08 March 2009 21:29
		Re: Black Widgets Draw Window in d_plot2d and d_gridding By: edwinretana on Sun, 08 March 2009 20:36
		Re: Black Widgets Draw Window in d_plot2d and d_gridding By: David Fanning on Sun, 08 March 2009 17:07

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