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Re: How to pick a window? [message #23492 is a reply to message #23488]

Thu, 25 January 2001 17:56

amacphee
Messages: 9
Registered: September 2000

Junior Member

OK, I guess I asked for it :-) I'll check the books (including yours; I
bought that a couple of weeks ago too :-)
Just for some encouragement before I try this, is there an easy way to
translate something like

window
tvscl, indgen(256,256)

into 'widget speak'?

Thanks,
Andrew

In article <MPG.14da61e9f8de5b13989d34@news.frii.com>,
davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote:
> AM (no_spamus@yahoo.com) writes:
>
>> I am trying to find out which idl window I clicked on (ie, selected)
if
>> I have a number of them on the screen. I want to feed that back into
a
>> routine that then goes and does something depending on which window
I
>> click on. I am using the "old fashioned" windows created with
'window',
>> rather than these new fangled "widget windows". Is here a solution
or do
>> I have to use widgets? I am using idl 5.4 in a unix environment.
>
> Do you *have* to use widgets!?
>
> ...Nope. Huh, uh. I'm not gonna say anything...
>
> My mamma told me if you can't think of anything
> good to say, just keep your mouth shut.
>
>> Maybe I can get the window manager to say something to idl?
>
> Do you mean like ... No, no, just forget it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> P.S. Let's just say if IDL weren't first written
> in Neanderthal times we would *all* be using widgets
> as windows. Sheesh!
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
>

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		Re: How to pick a window? By: R.Bauer on Sun, 28 January 2001 10:50
		Re: How to pick a window? By: davidf on Thu, 25 January 2001 20:18
		Re: How to pick a window? By: amacphee on Thu, 25 January 2001 17:56
		Re: How to pick a window? By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 25 January 2001 17:30
		Re: How to pick a window? By: davidf on Thu, 25 January 2001 15:17
		Re: How to pick a window? By: thompson on Tue, 30 January 2001 11:11
		Re: How to pick a window? By: davidf on Sun, 28 January 2001 11:03

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