text widget example

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2018-01-02 18:53:49 UTC

Here's a very brief thing...

pro thistext,event
widget_control,event.id,get_value=text
print,text
end
pro wget

base=widget_base(title='test',/col)
wtext=widget_text(base,value='',uname='textbox',/edit,event_pro='thistext')
widget_control,base,/realize
state=ptr_new({wtext:wtext})
widget_control,base,set_uval=state
xmanager,'wget',base,/no_block
end

if you put text in the box and hit return, then it will print that text to the terminal.

-Russell

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Post by Ann Nonymous
Hello,
Does anyone have a snippet of code that shows how to process input from a text widget? What I'm asking about is that you have a text widget, you type in a string, and hit return, and the string is passed to the event_pro routine for that widget.
I would have thought this information would have been passed in the event structure but I can't find anything that explains if this is the case. What I have found is illustrated below in the code from Liam Gumley's book, where the string is passed via a variable in the uvalue. This seems like a complicated way to go about it, especially since in the program I'm writing I'd like to have about a dozen text widgets.
Thanks,
Mark
PRO WGETNAME_EVENT, EVENT
print, 'Event detected'
;- Get state information
widget_control, event.top, get_uvalue=infoptr
info = *infoptr
;- Identify widget which caused the event
widget_control, event.id, get_uvalue=widget
help, widget
;- Handle events
if (widget eq 'Text') or (widget eq 'OK') then begin
widget_control, info.text, get_value=name
info.name = name
info.status = 'OK'
endif else begin
info.name = ''
info.status = 'Cancel'
endelse
print,'name ',name
;- Save state information
*infoptr = info
;- Destroy the widget hierarchy
widget_control, event.top, /destroy
END
PRO WGETNAME_CLEANUP, ID
print, 'Cleaning up'
;- Get state information
widget_control, id, get_uvalue=infoptr
info = *infoptr
;- Save result
result = {name:info.name, status:info.status}
*infoptr = result
END
PRO WGETNAME, NAME, STATUS
print, 'Creating widgets'
;- Create top level base
device, get_screen_size=screen_size
xoffset = screen_size[0] / 3
yoffset = screen_size[1] / 3
tlb = widget_base(column=1, title='Name', $
xoffset=xoffset, yoffset=yoffset, tlb_frame_attr=1)
;- Create text entry widgets
tbase = widget_base(tlb, row=1)
label = widget_label(tbase, value='Enter your name: ')
text = widget_text(tbase, uvalue='Text', /editable)
;- Create button widgets
bbase = widget_base(tlb, row=1, /align_center)
bsize = 75
butta = widget_button(bbase, value='OK', $
uvalue='OK', xsize=bsize)
buttb = widget_button(bbase, value='Cancel', $
uvalue='Cancel', xsize=bsize)
;- Realize widgets
widget_control, tlb, /realize
;- Create and store state information
info = {text:text, name:'', status:'Cancel'}
infoptr = ptr_new(info)
widget_control, tlb, set_uvalue=infoptr
;- Manage events
xmanager, 'wgetname', tlb, cleanup='wgetname_cleanup'
;- Get result
result = *infoptr
ptr_free, infoptr
name = result.name
status = result.status
END