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Odd Thing with Dialog_Pickfile [message #69205]

Thu, 17 December 2009 17:31

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

Here is an odd little thing that is totally reproducible.
I'm trying to write a file, and I want to give the user
a chance to change the filename with Dialog_Pickfile on
my IDL 7.1.2 Windows 64-bit OS. I type these commands:

filename = 'polarstereo_np_304x448_25000m.lat'
filename = Dialog_Pickfile(FILE=filename)

When the dialog comes up, the name looks like it has
been chopped in half. It looks like "304x448_25000m.lat".
If I put my cursor in the file name field to fix it, it
pops up the whole name. If I try to take a screen dump
of it to show it to ITTVIS, that fixes it, too, before
I can capture it.

The name is apparently there, just not visible. Weird.

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
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