setYesLabel and setNoLabel

[Eirinn Mackay]

Hi,
I'm building a GUI for my plugin and I've just realised I could  
achieve quite a bit with the GenericDialog if I could set the captions  
of the Yes and No buttons. In my case, I want the no button to say  
"Add another file" and the yes button to say "Run batch". I think this  
is a very simple way of making the generic dialog more versatile.
So would it be possible to add two more functions to the GenericDialog  
class?
Kind regards,
Eirinn
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Eirinn Mackay
Research Assistant
Bartlett Group L6
Queensland Brain Institute
Brisbane, Australia
07 334 66381

[Michael Schmid]

Hi Eirinn,

GenericDialog has a
     public void setOKLabel(String label)
method that you can use. There is nothing like this for 'cancel'

Misusing 'Cancel' for something else may also have unwanted side  
effects, e.g., aborting a macro on gd.wasCanceled().
Pprobably you will need a 'cancel' button anyhow, e.g., in case the  
user finds out that he has added the wrong file. If you really don't  
want it, use the public void hideCancelButton() method.

You will have to add a panel for the "Add file" button, and your  
plugin should be an ActionListener to that button.
ij.plugin.LUT_Editor is an example for this.

If you want to run it from a macro, you will have to care about the  
operation of the 'add file' button for yourself; GenericDialog won't  
do it for you (in contrast to the other input types).


Michael
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On 2 Jul 2009, at 03:25, Eirinn Mackay wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm building a GUI for my plugin and I've just realised I could  
> achieve quite a bit with the GenericDialog if I could set the  
> captions of the Yes and No buttons. In my case, I want the no  
> button to say "Add another file" and the yes button to say "Run  
> batch". I think this is a very simple way of making the generic  
> dialog more versatile.
> So would it be possible to add two more functions to the  
> GenericDialog class?
> Kind regards,
> Eirinn
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> Eirinn Mackay
> Research Assistant
> Bartlett Group L6
> Queensland Brain Institute
> Brisbane, Australia
> 07 334 66381

[Wayne Rasband]

> Hi,
> I'm building a GUI for my plugin and I've just realised I could
> achieve quite a bit with the GenericDialog if I could set the captions
> of the Yes and No buttons. In my case, I want the no button to say
> "Add another file" and the yes button to say "Run batch". I think this
> is a very simple way of making the generic dialog more versatile.
> So would it be possible to add two more functions to the GenericDialog
> class?

The GenericDialog class in the v1.43c daily build adds a
enableYesNoCancel(yesLabel, noLabel) method. Here is an example that
shows how to use it:

     GenericDialog gd = new GenericDialog("YesNoCancel Demo");
     gd.addMessage("This is a custom YesNoCancel dialog");
     gd.enableYesNoCancel("Run batch", "Add another file");
     gd.showDialog();
     if (gd.wasCanceled())
         IJ.log("The user clicked on the 'Cancel' button");
     else if (gd.wasOKed())
         IJ. log("The user clicked on the 'Yes' button");
     else
         IJ. log("The user clicked on the 'No' button");

-wayne

[Fernando Sales]

That's great!
This is one of the reasons i've choosen IJ as a development platform.
IJ has been dialy updated indeed and, when a good suggestion appears, it's
fastly added to IJ.
Congratulations to Wayne and others IJ developers.
Best Regards,

Fernando Sales
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Wayne Rasband <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>> I'm building a GUI for my plugin and I've just realised I could achieve
>> quite a bit with the GenericDialog if I could set the captions of the Yes
>> and No buttons. In my case, I want the no button to say "Add another file"
>> and the yes button to say "Run batch". I think this is a very simple way of
>> making the generic dialog more versatile.
>> So would it be possible to add two more functions to the GenericDialog
>> class?
>>
>
> The GenericDialog class in the v1.43c daily build adds a
> enableYesNoCancel(yesLabel, noLabel) method. Here is an example that shows
> how to use it:
>
>    GenericDialog gd = new GenericDialog("YesNoCancel Demo");
>    gd.addMessage("This is a custom YesNoCancel dialog");
>    gd.enableYesNoCancel("Run batch", "Add another file");
>    gd.showDialog();
>    if (gd.wasCanceled())
>        IJ.log("The user clicked on the 'Cancel' button");
>    else if (gd.wasOKed())
>        IJ. log("The user clicked on the 'Yes' button");
>    else
>        IJ. log("The user clicked on the 'No' button");
>
> -wayne
>

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[Eirinn Mackay]

Perfect, thanks Wayne :)
Michael: I knew about setOKlabel, but that only works if you have two  
buttons, OK and Cancel. With the new function that Wayne wrote, we can  
now have an extra button without the complexity of adding a panel. For  
example, one could have "OK", "Cancel", and "Browse...".
Cheers,
Eirinn
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Eirinn Mackay
Research Assistant
Bartlett Group L6
Queensland Brain Institute
Brisbane, Australia
07 334 66381




On 03/07/2009, at 12:04 AM, Wayne Rasband wrote:

>> Hi,
>> I'm building a GUI for my plugin and I've just realised I could  
>> achieve quite a bit with the GenericDialog if I could set the  
>> captions of the Yes and No buttons. In my case, I want the no  
>> button to say "Add another file" and the yes button to say "Run  
>> batch". I think this is a very simple way of making the generic  
>> dialog more versatile.
>> So would it be possible to add two more functions to the  
>> GenericDialog class?
>
> The GenericDialog class in the v1.43c daily build adds a  
> enableYesNoCancel(yesLabel, noLabel) method. Here is an example that  
> shows how to use it:
>
>    GenericDialog gd = new GenericDialog("YesNoCancel Demo");
>    gd.addMessage("This is a custom YesNoCancel dialog");
>    gd.enableYesNoCancel("Run batch", "Add another file");
>    gd.showDialog();
>    if (gd.wasCanceled())
>        IJ.log("The user clicked on the 'Cancel' button");
>    else if (gd.wasOKed())
>        IJ. log("The user clicked on the 'Yes' button");
>    else
>        IJ. log("The user clicked on the 'No' button");
>
> -wayne