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Re: graphics window [message #85787 is a reply to message #76335]

Sun, 08 September 2013 09:26

peterkamatej
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Registered: September 2013

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Dne středa, 25. května 2011 18:38:40 UTC+2 David Fanning napsal(a):
> David Fanning writes:
>
>> That window also immediately appears on top of the Workbench.
>> However, when I click in the editor to edit the file, the
>> damn window won't go away! It stubbornly persists in staying
>> directly in front of the area of the Workbench I want to type in!
>
> I found a button in the IDL graphics preferences that
> was set. The button was "Graphics windows stay on top".
> This button was set in my Workbench.
>
> With the button not selected, the function graphics
> window appears in front of the Workbench when it is
> created, but then disappears seemingly forever when
> I click in the Workbench to type something. Nothing
> I can find to do in the Workbench brings it forward.
>
> I can find it again by either clicking on my IDL
> icon in the taskbar at the bottom of my page,
> finding the window I want, and clicking on it. Or,
> I can find it by cycling through the 10-20 open
> windows I have on my computer at any one time with
> Alt-Tab. It disappears again when I do anything
> in the Workbench.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

Dear David,

I see this is quite an old discussion but just for the case this question is still unanswered..

You can get the Object Graphics window back to front very simply, there is a method "Show" of the Window object. Try this:

IDL> MyWindow = window(window_title='Hello World!')

When you click on the workbench, the window disappears into background.

IDL> MyWindow.show

You have the window back.

Slightly more complicated it is with the Plot object, which does not have a "show" method. However, it has a "window" property, which retrieves a reference to the parent Window object. Therefore, you can get a Plot into foreground by this

IDL> MyGraphics = plot(hanning(100))
IDL> MyGraphics.window.show

Cheers,

Matej

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		Re: graphics window By: Liam Gumley on Fri, 09 July 1999 00:00
		Re: graphics window By: davidf on Fri, 09 July 1999 00:00
		Re: graphics window By: Kristine Hensel on Fri, 09 July 1999 00:00
		Re: graphics window By: Liam Gumley on Fri, 09 July 1999 00:00
		Re: graphics window By: Grady Daub on Fri, 09 July 1999 00:00
		Re: graphics window By: J.D. Smith on Fri, 16 July 1999 00:00
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 May 2011 08:31
		Re: graphics window By: cgguido on Fri, 27 May 2011 08:15
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 11:32
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 11:18
		Re: graphics window By: Matt[2] on Wed, 25 May 2011 11:01
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 10:52
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 10:46
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 10:33
		Re: graphics window By: Daniel Larson on Wed, 25 May 2011 10:05
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 09:49
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 09:38
		Re: graphics window By: peterkamatej on Sun, 08 September 2013 09:26
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 09:12
		Re: graphics window By: David Fanning on Wed, 25 May 2011 08:08

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