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> It always print "a big cell" regardless of shift is pressed or not, for
> some reason.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Michael Schmid <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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