| Re: realizing nonmodal widgets [message #18346 is a reply to message #18344] |
Tue, 21 December 1999 00:00   |
reardonb
Messages: 16
Registered: December 1999
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Thanks Bernard! I'll try this as soon as I get home.
My next question is, How could I have figured that out
myself if I did not have access to this news group?
Thanks again!
-Brian
In article <385F95A7.D2F8C467@va.aetc.com>,
bpuc@va.aetc.com wrote:
> I believe that the XREGISTERED() function may be what you are looking
> for.
> If you put a line like this at the start of your INPUT routine,
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> IF XREGISTERD( "INPUT" ) THEN RETURN
>
> If an input window already exists, it will be brought to the front of
> the desktop.
>
> reardonb@my-deja.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>> I have a TLB widget that contains a widget button called INPUT. When
>> INPUT is pressed a non modal dialog widget pops up on the screen to
>> allow the user to input some data values. Currently, if you press the
>> INPUT widget button on the TLB a second time, then a second INPUT dialog
>> widget opens up. This is not what I want. I would like IDL to bring
>> the input widget to the foreground if it is already realized and if it
>> is not, then I want IDL to realize it. What is the most efficient or
>> elegant way of doing this? My na�ve understanding is that I will have
>> to use widget_info to determine if the widget has been realized and
>> then, if so, somehow bring it to the foreground with widget_control but
>> I am not sure.
>
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> bpuc@va.aetc.com 1225 Jefferson Davis Highway #800
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