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Re: compund widget question [message #45343 is a reply to message #45257]

Fri, 26 August 2005 15:02

David
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Registered: April 1997

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Here are two possibilities:

1) Use SPAWN to start up an external spreadsheet app. On Windows this
might look something like:

SPAWN,'start excel "'+ filename +'"' ,/HIDE

(where 'filename' is the value returned from a call to
DIALOG_PICKFILE), on unix it would look the same but without 'start' in
your command argument string, and without the HIDE keyword, and
obviously replacing 'excel' with the full path of the spreadsheet app
you want to open.

2) If you're on Windows, you could embed an ActiveX control in your
widget app. for a standard excel-like spreadsheet. There's an example
of this in the examples directory:

C:\RSI\IDL62\examples\doc\bridges\COM\ActiveXExcel.pro

You'd have to manage saving to a file yourself, though.

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		compund widget question By: rlayberry on Fri, 26 August 2005 02:03
		Re: compund widget question By: Rick Towler on Fri, 26 August 2005 15:27
		Re: compund widget question By: David on Fri, 26 August 2005 15:02

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