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Re: interpreter access [message #19570 is a reply to message #19551]

Tue, 04 April 2000 00:00

Steven Chetelat (CS) is currently offline

Steven Chetelat (CS)
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Registered: February 2000

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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, David Fanning wrote:

> Thomas Fechner (tfes@my-deja.com) writes:
>
>> my next task is to realize a GUI with IDL and I
>> want to call some external commands (C-programms,
>> shell scripts, IDL-functions etc.) from widgets
>> directly and (that's my problem) also copy these
>> commands to the IDL command window (interpreter
>> window). Is there any possibiltiy to access the
>> interpreter window from any IDL widgets and what
>> is to do therefore?
>
> The easiest way to gain access to the IDL command
> interpreter from any program is to use the "virtual
> functions": Call_Function, Call_Procedure, and Call_Method.
> And for what those don't do, there is good ol'
> Execute to mop up the rest. :-)

Also (assuming I understand the question), you can get whatever you
execute to print out to the command window simply using idl's print
statement, since all these functions take string arguments. There'll be
a little wrangling to get all the arguments to print out, but nothing too
rough.

K-Bye,
STEVE! (chetelat@csee.usf.edu)(steve@moffitt.usf.edu)

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		Re: interpreter access By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 06 April 2000 00:00
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		Re: interpreter access By: Steven Chetelat (CS) on Tue, 04 April 2000 00:00
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