popupmenus in Igor7

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The list that "pops up" from a Popupmenus in Igor7 has a vertical bar down it, with an empty space on the left side. For color table popup menu (and possibly other popup modes), this space contains a checkmark for the currently selected item. Are there any (perhaps undocumented) hooks to use this left side space with user defined menu list popup menus? Like being able to populate it with checks or bullets for selected items? I currently do something like this:

function/S NQ_ChanSelectList (chanVarStr, nChans)
    string chanVarStr
    variable nChans
   
    NVAR chanVar = $"root:Packages:twoP:Acquire:" + chanVarStr
    string chanSelList = ""
    variable iChan
    for (ichan =0; iChan < nChans; iChan +=1)
        if ((2^ichan) & chanVar)
        chanSelList += "\\M1" + num2char(7) + " "
        else
            chanSelList += "   "
        endif
        chanSelList +=  num2str (iCHan) + ";"
    endfor
    return chanSelList
end


Function testChan_PopMenuProc(pa) : PopupMenuControl
    STRUCT WMPopupAction &pa

    switch( pa.eventCode )
        case 2: // mouse up
           
            NVAR chanVar = root:Packages:twoP:Acquire:scanChans
            String popStr = pa.popStr
            if (char2num (popStr[0]) != 7) // adding a new channel
                chanVar+= 2^(pa.popNum -1)
            else
                chanVar -=2^(pa.popNum -1)
            endif
            Variable popNum = pa.popNum
           
            break
        case -1: // control being killed
            break
    endswitch
    //print chanVar
    return 0
End
DisplayHelpTopic "Special Characters in Menu Item Strings"

But be aware that a PopupMenu control requires that special character interpretation be enabled, so you need to add "\\M1" to your menu items. DisplayHelpTopic "Enabling and Disabling Special Character Interpretation".

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

October 24, 2016 at 10:07 am - Permalink

johnweeks wrote:
DisplayHelpTopic "Special Characters in Menu Item Strings"

But be aware that a PopupMenu control requires that special character interpretation be enabled, so you need to add "\\M1" to your menu items. DisplayHelpTopic "Enabling and Disabling Special Character Interpretation".

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com


Thanks John, that works, puts the checkmark in the intended location. It looks so much better.
Note that with this method of marking selections you can't use something like
if (char2num (popStr[0]) != 7)

to see if an item is selected; the checkmarks are not part of the string. It is easy to redo the functions so they work properly, though.

This code uses a variable for a bitwise channel selection (0 =1, 1-2, 2=4, 3=8, etc) and a string containing the list of channels. The popmenu shows the list of channels with selected channels checked. Selecting a currently unselected channel from the popmenu selects it, selecting a selected channel deselects it.

    PopupMenu popup0,pos={1.00,1.00},size={135.00,23.00},proc=ChanPopMenuProc,title="Selected Channels"
    PopupMenu popup0,mode=0,value= #"ChanSelectList ()"
    string/G root:chanStr =  "ch0-test1;ch1-test2;ch2-test3;ch3-test4;"
    variable/G root:chanVar = 0
   
    PopupMenu popup0,pos={1.00,1.00},size={135.00,23.00},proc=ChanPopMenuProc,title="Selected Channels"
    PopupMenu popup0,mode=0,value= #"ChanSelectList ()"

function/S ChanSelectList ()
 
    SVAR chanStr = root:chanStr
    NVAR chanVar = root:chanVar
    string chanSelList = ""
    variable iChan, nchans = ItemsInList(chanStr, ";")
    for (ichan =0; iChan < nChans; iChan +=1)
        if ((2^ichan) & chanVar)
            chanSelList += "\\M1" + StringFromList(iChan, chanStr, ";")  + "!*;"
        else
            chanSelList += StringFromList(iChan, chanStr, ";")  + ";"
        endif
    endfor
    return chanSelList
end
 
 
Function ChanPopMenuProc(pa) : PopupMenuControl
    STRUCT WMPopupAction &pa
 
    switch( pa.eventCode )
        case 2: // mouse up
 
            NVAR chanVar = root:chanVar
            variable chanPos = 2^(pa.popnum-1)
            if (chanPos & chanVar) // deselecting a new channel
                chanVar-= chanPos
            else // selecting a channel
                chanVar += chanPos
            endif
            break
        case -1: // control being killed
            break
    endswitch
    return 0
End

October 26, 2016 at 10:42 am - Permalink