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Using another button instead of "Ok" - Modal windows

Hi,

   Just started learning scripting so please excuse the messy or redundant coding haha.  I'm trying to combine a few things I've picked up from these forums.  Basically, give the user an option of opening a file or selecting an already open file.  I've finally figured out I needed to use a Modal window to wait for the selection is made before continuing down the script.  

 

Is there a way to have the code continue when the selection is made? Instead of waiting for the user to press the "Ok" button?  So for my two options:

1. User opens a file --> continue when the file is opened

2. User selects an open file --> continue when the file is selected

 

Right now, having them press the "ok" button after the selection seems redundant.  Thanks for any help!

 

InputWindow = New Window( "Pick a file opening option (must be truncated)", <<MODAL></MODAL>

Re: Using another button instead of "Ok" - Modal windows

Hi,

  Thanks for the replies.  Ah, I think everybody is correct in I didn't need it to be modal.  That was the first solution I found to getting my table to stay defined after the selection was made and the script moved past the window selection.

 

Either way, the self click worked for what I had written, already.  But I'll try the straight forward way of using functions.  Thanks again.

Re: Using another button instead of "Ok" - Modal windows

Modal windows are designed to force a user to click OK before execution continues.  Alternatively, you can have a non-modal window and put attach a script to either a button or a display box that allows selections.  In the example below, execution continues immediately a selection is made:

Names Default To Here(1);
lst = {"Item 1","Item 2","Item 3","Item 4"};
nw = New Window("Selection",
 Border Box(top(20),bottom(20),left(20),right(20),
  V List Box(
   Text Box("Select an item from the list:"),
   lb = List Box(lst,<<SETMAXSELECTED></SETMAXSELECTED>

 

Re: Using another button instead of "Ok" - Modal windows

You could just manually make the okay button and click it with btn << Click. 

InputWindow = New Window( "Pick a file opening option (must be truncated)",
 <<MODAL></MODAL>

But it sounds like you might not need a modal dialog.  You could just have the rest of your code execution be a function or expression and send that to each button. 

 

domorestuff = function({}, 
 print(dt);
);
InputWindow = New Window( "Pick a file opening option (must be truncated)",
 
 V List Box(
  Text Box( "Pick a Cut and Truncated Waveform" ),
  Spacer Box( size( 1, 10 ) ),
  Button Box( "Open a file",
   path = Pick File(
    "Select Raw Waveform data",
    "", // no default directory
    {"JMP Files|jmp;jsl;jrn", "All Files|*"},
    1,
    0,
    "" // no default file
   );
   dt = Open( path ); //probably should do this instead of current data table()
   //dt = Current Data Table();
   domorestuff();
  ),
  Spacer Box( size( 10, 1 ) ), 

  Button Box( "Select from a list",
   choose_data_table = Function( {},
    list = {};
    For( i = 1, i <= N Table(), i++,
     list[i] = Data Table( i ) << get name
    );

    win = New Window( "Select a data table",
     <<MODAL></MODAL>