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Re: Bringing widgets to the front [message #75561]

Mon, 04 April 2011 05:51

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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johan writes:

> I know that one can change the order of objects but can you do the
> same for widgets? I have a widget that I want to make visible in
> different circumstances but in some of these it is hidden behing ones
> cretaed after it.

Typically, you would type something like this to bring
a widget top-level base forward on the display:

Widget_Control, widgetID, /Show

In IDL 8, however, this whole "window show" thing has
been badly broken, so that it almost never works properly.

Cheers,

David
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