| Re: color buttons [message #7913] |
Sun, 26 January 1997 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Ding Wu <dwu@larry.cc.emory.edu> writes:
> Anyone knows how to make color buttons in IDL like other languages.
> Off course we can use widget_draw to make 'color buttons', but that's not
> what I want. (because draws looks ugly, also several pixel away from
> alignment with other buttons).
Well, I guess one person's "ugly" is another person's pride and joy.
If anyone is interested in an ugly draw widget button, I have an
example of one on my anonymous ftp site. It is basically
a compound widget in which a "button" is drawn in a draw widget.
It behaves like a button, changing colors when it is "pushed",
returning true button event structures, etc.
It is located at ftp.frii.com in the directory:
/pub/dfanning/outgoing/idl_examples/color_button.pro
Compile it and exersize it by typing "test":
IDL> .compile color_button
IDL> test
As Ding Wu points out, it is not the *perfect* solution, but
it has worked for me in a pinch.
And as Mark Rivers points out, a better solution for color buttons
if you are running on a UNIX system is to use X resources.
David
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| Re: color buttons [message #7915 is a reply to message #7913] |
Sat, 25 January 1997 00:00  |
rivers
Messages: 228
Registered: March 1991
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In article <5cbqde$ppq@larry.cc.emory.edu>, dwu@larry.cc.emory.edu (Ding Wu) writes:
> Anyone knows how to make color buttons in IDL like other languages.
> Off course we can use widget_draw to make 'color buttons', but that's not
> what I want. (because draws looks ugly, also several pixel away from
> alignment with other buttons).
In IDL on X windows systems you can use X "resources" to control the
color of IDL buttons.
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