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> 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
> ________________________________________________________________
> 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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