Re: non modal dialog box in macros

Posted by Michael Schmid on Jul 24, 2014; 7:38pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/non-modal-dialog-box-in-macros-tp5008882p5008887.html

Hi Philippe,

it's true that the waitForUser has no checkbox, but if you have only a boolean to ask for,  you can use a keyboard modifier key.

  waitForUser("Select cell. Then press OK if a small, SHIFT OK if a big cell");
  if (isKeyDown("shift"))
    print ("Wow, a big cell!");

Michael
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On Jul 24, 2014, at 16:54, Philippe CARL wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to use a non modal dialog box in macros.
>
> In order to describe a little bit what I would like to do ; in a macro I’m
> writing, the user will have to select a ROI from the ROI Manager by clicking
> on the given ROI on the picture in the same time that he decides how the
> next step of the macro should be done by means of a checkbox choice.
>
> Unfortunately, the Dialog.create features are modal as the waitForUser
> window (non modal) doesn’t allow you to add any checkbox.
>
> Of course one solution would be to first use a waitForUser window followed
> by a Dialog.create window one.
>
> But given that I will have 2 of these steps (ROI + Checkbox choice) for 2
> channels in the macro iterated on all the cells on a given picture and that
> there are a whole bunch of pictures, the difference of work for the user
> will be from quite a lot to double.
>
> Thus one of the solution would be to have a NonBlockingDialog command
> implemented in macros based on the NonBlockingGenericDialog class
> additionally to the GenericDialog class used for the Dialog one (if Wayne
> thinks this could be useful for the community).
>
> But would there be another solution that I may be missing with the already
> available tools in macros?
>
> I thank you very much in advance for your help.
>
> My best regards,
>
> Philippe

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