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Re: how to find the TLB of a widget [message #18405]

Thu, 23 December 1999 00:00

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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In article <38613EC5.71E5AF2C@cornell.edu>, Jonathan Joseph
<jj21@cornell.edu> wrote:

> Is there a simple way (other than recursively getting the parent)
> to find the Top-level base of a widget. I don't have an event
> structure to query (which stores it as one of it's fields).
>
> It seems that it should be obtainable in one fell swoop using
> widget_info or widget_control, but I can't seem to find
> it if it is there.
>
> Shall I bother to write the routine get_tlb (OK, I've already
> written as it is so trivial) or does such already exist.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>

You don't need recursion... How about (given a widget dw).

repeat begin
tlb=dw
dw=widget_info(dw,/PARENT)
endrep until dw eq 0

JD

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