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Re: xyouts for iPlot? [message #55629 is a reply to message #55622]

Wed, 29 August 2007 10:53

Michael Galloy
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On Aug 29, 10:36 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Paul van Delst writes:
>> Holy cow.
>
> Yeah, I had exactly the same idea, but I packed a little
> more functionality into it:
>
> PRO iXYOUTS, id, theString
> theSystem = _IDLitSys_GetSystem()
> theTool = theSystem -> GetByIdentifier(id)
> idAnnotate = theTool -> FindIdentifiers('*/ANNOTATION LAYER')
> oAnnotate = theTool -> getByIdentifier(idAnnotate
> oAnnotate -> add, OBJ_NEW('IDLitVisText', _STRING = theString,
> ALIGNMENT = 0.5, $
> VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT = 1.0, $
> FONT_SIZE = 24, $
> LOCATION = [0.5, 0.5, 0.5])
> END
>
> This way it can be used with ANY iTool, as long as you
> remember to get the identifier when you call the tool.
>
> IDL> IPlot, findgen(11), Identifier=id
> IDL> iXYOUTS, id, 'This is any old string.'
>

The ID should probably be an optional keyword. Then ITGETCURRENT()
could be used to get the current iTool (i.e. same basic idea as the
current graphics window) if the ID is not provided.

Mike
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		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: pdoherty on Sat, 01 September 2007 18:42
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: David Fanning on Fri, 31 August 2007 20:17
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: David Fanning on Fri, 31 August 2007 06:03
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: pdoherty on Thu, 30 August 2007 16:48
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 30 August 2007 07:00
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: Kenneth Bowman on Wed, 29 August 2007 12:45
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 29 August 2007 10:53
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 August 2007 09:36
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 29 August 2007 09:23
		Re: xyouts for iPlot? By: Kenneth Bowman on Wed, 29 August 2007 08:02

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