| Re: Floating Point Slider Widgets [message #36377] |
Sun, 14 September 2003 23:33  |
Dr Paul Ducksbury
Messages: 5
Registered: September 2003
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Yeh, I did think, 'this is nice but i cant do so-and-so' a few times
(amoungst other things)
thanks
Paul
"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.19cb6fa77e9a1a4f9896e6@news.frii.com...
> Dr Paul Ducksbury writes:
>
>> Im using IDL 6 and widgets and now would like a floating point slider in
my
>> GUI.
>>
>> Using the graphical creation tool for designing a GUI appears only to
allow
>> you to put in a standard (integer) slider and tells you that you
shouldnt
>> edit the .pro file generated from the .rpc as its generated
automatically,
>> so that only leaves the event.pro file. Now i've found the CW_FSLIDER
>> function but that doesnt appear to allow for positioning of the slider
>> relative to other widgets etc etc
>>
>> Is there an easy way of putting a floating point slider widget into a
GUI
>> and position it relative to other widsgets ?
>
> Well, not given the way CW_FSLIDER is written. But a couple
> of well-placed _EXTRA keywords would probably make a five minute
> job of it.
>
> But I would ditch the "graphical creation tool", too,
> while I was at it. You won't learn anything but bad
> habits if you write your code with that. :-)
>
> (It's true that you can write awful widget programs by
> hand, too. But at least if you do, you have a better
> chance of fixing them.)
>
> You might find this article helpful:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/widget_tips/gui_builder.html
>
>> I have only been looking at this for a few days so i may have missed the
>> obvious
>
> Guys who have only been here a few days always
> seem to point out that the Emperor has no clothes.
> We all know that, but most of us ignore it and go
> to work anyway, just because we love him so. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
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