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Re: YSIZE of widget_text [message #38028]

Tue, 17 February 2004 06:23

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Nuno Oliveira writes:

> If have a widget text which number of lines I want to be variable, how
> do I do? If I don't define it (defining only src_ysize), idl assumes
> ysize=1 and puts an array of strings in a single line! I can set ysize
> as a number so big I never expect to need to use those lines, but is
> there other way?

Don't you want the Y size to be equal to the number
of elements in your string array?

Widget_Control, textID, YSize=N_Elements(myStrings)

You will want to almost *always* avoid setting screen
sizes. Nothing but woe ever comes from it. :-(

Cheers,

David
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