Drawing on layers ... or not

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With the following code:

function DrawStuff(string gname, string layer, variable isChecked)
    if(isChecked)
        SetDrawLayer/W=$gname $layer
        DrawText 0.2,0.2,"stuff drawn!"
    else
        SetDrawLayer/W=$gname/K $layer
    endif
end

I can do:

•display
•DrawStuff("Graph0", "ProgBack", 1)
•DrawStuff("Graph0", "ProgBack", 0)

Text will first appear on Graph0, and the last line will take it off. So far so good.

Then I use

function doPanel(string win)
    NewPanel/N=ctrlPanel/W=(0,0,100,100) /EXT=0/HOST=$win
    CheckBox checkGrid, win=ctrlPanel, pos={15,25},size={61.00,16.00},proc=myCheckProc
    CheckBox checkGrid,win=ctrlPanel,title="draw stuff",value=0
end

Function myCheckProc(cba) : CheckBoxControl
    STRUCT WMCheckboxAction &cba
   
    string HostName, cmd
    string layer = "ProgBack"
   
    switch( cba.eventCode )
        case 2: // mouse up
            HostName = StringFromList(0,cba.win,"#")
            sprintf cmd "DrawStuff(\"%s\", \"%s\", %g)", HostName, layer, cba.checked
            print cmd
            drawStuff(HostName, layer, cba.Checked)
            break
        case -1: // control being killed
            break
    endswitch

    return 0
End

and add a sub-window to "Graph0":

doPanel("Graph0")

Now clicking the "draw stuff" checkbox should cause the same as the commands above, but nothing is drawn, at least not on my system, which is:

print IgorInfo(3)
  OS:macOS;OSVERSION:10.15.7;LOCALE:US;IGORFILEVERSION:9.01B01;

I might be missing something but I just don't seen it. Maybe sub-window syntax?

Solved!

I forgot to add /W=$gname to DrawText in the top function.

D'Oh!

 

EDIT:

Why is that? One looks since more than a day for the error and as soon it has been posted it jumps right into the face!

April 7, 2022 at 02:02 am - Permalink

Well, either way, the forum proofs to be extraordinary useful!

Probably better that way than being caught by colleagues speaking to a duck!

April 7, 2022 at 06:14 am - Permalink

Perhaps in the debugger there should be a little rubber duck picture with the caption "Talk to me"

Andy

April 7, 2022 at 06:47 am - Permalink