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Re: IDL command line access from inside a widget? [message #82727 is a reply to message #82725]

Fri, 11 January 2013 17:23

havok2063
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Registered: December 2012

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I forgot to mention that the user should be able to manipulate the data in IDL but still be able to interactively use the widget at the same time.

On Friday, January 11, 2013 7:51:37 PM UTC-5, Brian Cherinka wrote:
> I have a widget program that I'm running that displays some data and allows the user some interaction.
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> If I want to allow the user access to the command line so they can use the rest of IDL to explore the data, what is the best possible way?
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> I've set NO_BLOCK on the XMANAGER but that puts me back at the MAIN without access to the variables I've loaded inside my procedure.
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> Is there a way to get back to the command line and have access to the variables I've already loaded?
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> Is the answer to spawn an instance of IDL at the end of my widget procedure that runs a specified script to give me the variables I want?
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> On a side note, is it possible to spawn a new xterminal, open idl in it and run a script, all from within IDL? I've spawned the xterminal but can't get idl to load in it.
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> Thanks for the help.

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		Re: IDL command line access from inside a widget? By: David Fanning on Fri, 11 January 2013 19:02
		Re: IDL command line access from inside a widget? By: Matthew Argall on Fri, 11 January 2013 18:24
		Re: IDL command line access from inside a widget? By: David Fanning on Fri, 11 January 2013 18:09
		Re: IDL command line access from inside a widget? By: havok2063 on Fri, 11 January 2013 17:23
		Re: IDL command line access from inside a widget? By: Russell Ryan on Tue, 15 January 2013 14:28

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