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Re: Simple GUI question [message #34800 is a reply to message #34799]

Fri, 18 April 2003 08:02

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Kevin M. Lausten (kevinlausten@hotmail.com) writes:

> I am a beginner user of IDL and results are expected soon. My current
> project begins with a GUI in which the user is prompted to input
> strings into several text widgets. I am haveing trouble passing this
> data from the GUI to my source code. The first line of my source code
> calls the GUI, and I need subsequent lines to perform procedures and
> functions on the data provided by the user. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

What you want is a modal or blocking "dialog" widget:

http://www.dfanning.com/widget_tips/modal_blocking.html

You can find an example of how to write one here:

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/textbox.pro

The example allows you to open a text widget and return
the answer to your program. Your program will be slightly
more elaborate than this, but will work on exactly the
same principles.

IDL> theName = TextBox(Label='What is your name? ', $
Value='Unknown', Cancel=cancelled)
IDL> IF NOT cancelled THEN Print, theName

Cheers,

David

P.S. The fastest way to learn about widget programming in IDL
is to get a good book. :-)

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		Re: Simple GUI question By: R.Bauer on Sat, 19 April 2003 01:10
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