Re: GenericDialog Choice with units method

Posted by Wayne Rasband-2 on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/GenericDialog-Choice-with-units-method-tp5023727p5023731.html

> On Jul 17, 2020, at 11:44 AM, CARL Philippe (LBP) <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thus is there a way to define an unit value just following a Choice Component?

You can add the unit to the label, for example:

  gd.addChoice("Width ("+unit+")", items, null);

I am reluctant to make changes to GenericDialog since it appears to slow down Fiji updates:

   https://github.com/imagej/ij1-patcher/pull/47

Fiji  currently includes ImageJ 1.52p, released more than a year ago and seven versions out of date.

-wayne

> Dear all,
> Within a GenericDialog there are 3 methods for adding a NumericField, one of them nicely giving the possibility to define the unit of the field content:
> void addNumericField(java.lang.String label, double defaultValue, int digits, int columns, java.lang.String units)
> Very unfortunately there is only one method for adding a Choice which actually doesn't give the option for an unit entry:
> addChoice(java.lang.String label, java.lang.String[] items, java.lang.String defaultItem)
> Thus following the addChoice method, I thought using a:
> addToSameRow()
> followed by a
> addMessage
> will be doing the job.
> Very unfortunately, in this case the added message correctly shows up on the same line than the choice but really really far away from the given Choice Component.
> As an alternative, I tryed then to use the following code:
> Component[] dlgItems = gd.getComponents();
> Component comp = dlgItems[6];
> GridBagLayout grid = (GridBagLayout) gd.getLayout();
> GridBagConstraints cst = grid.getConstraints(comp);
> cst.gridx = cst.gridx - 20;
> cst.gridy = cst.gridy - 1;
> grid.setConstraints(comp, cst);
> But as I'm able to modify the cst.gridy value as wished, this isn't the case for the cst.gridx one which seems to be kind of blocked.
> Thus is there a way to define an unit value just following a Choice Component?
> I thank you very much in advance for your lights on this and wish you a nice week-end.
> My best regards,
> Philippe

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