Re: NonBlockingGenericDialog within macro

Posted by Wayne Rasband-2 on Apr 02, 2019; 4:24pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/NonBlockingGenericDialog-within-macro-tp5021962p5021965.html

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 5:18 AM, Philippe CARL <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> What would you think about having the possibility to create
> NonBlockingGenericDialog within macro?

The latest ImageJ daily build (1.52o15) adds a Dialog.createNonBlocking() macro function. Here is an example:

  Dialog.createNonBlocking("Crop");
  msg = "Create or modify an area selection\n"
     +"and then press \"OK\"";
  Dialog.addMessage(msg);
  Dialog.show();
  run("Crop”);

-wayne

> The possibilities given by the macro Dialog. Tools are quite powerful but
> the obtained dialogs are only modal.
> So the only possibility within macros to have a non modal dialog is to use
> the waitForUser method combined with different isKeyDown combinations.
> I have an example code where I use such combinations providing thus 5
> different options which makes it quite a lot of things to read and
> understand for the user.
> And all these "complicated" choices could simply be resumed by a very simple
> Dialog box having only 2 Checkboxes.
> But in the same time the user needs to have a non modal access to a couple
> Plot and Log windows and/or data.
> Given all this, it would really be cool to have as well a
> NonBlockingGenericDialog within macro.
> Of course the alternative could be as well that I translate all the code
> (i.e. around 600 lines) from macro into java to not be bound anymore to the
> described limitations.
> Looking forward for your suggestions and ideas, I wish you all a nice day!
> Philippe

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