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Re: Getting uname [message #28644 is a reply to message #28634]

Thu, 27 December 2001 11:18

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Lisa Gandy (redlmg98@hotmail.com) writes:
>
> I have a gui in IDL and I understand how to set uvalues of widgets and
> then get the uvalue when an event is triggered. However I am not
> familiar with how to get the uname when an event is triggered. For
> example usually i would use this command to get the uvalue....
>
> widget_control,event.id,get_uvalue = uval
>
> What is the command to get a uname?

If you are using UNAMES, you have to know what name
you are looking for. For example, suppose you had
assigned a slider the uname "RED_SLIDER". Then you would
find the ID of the slider in an event handler like this:

sliderID = Widget_Info(event.top, Find_By_UName='RED_SLIDER')

Cheers,

David
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