VS:vsoInsertWidget

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Description

Adds a parameter to the OI palette.

WidgetTypes:

	kFieldLongInt     = 1;
	kFieldBoolean     = 2;
	kFieldReal        = 3;
	kFieldText        = 4;
	kFieldCalculation = 5;
	kFieldHandle      = 6;
	kFieldCoordDisp   = 7; {dimension}
	kFieldPopUp       = 8;
	kFieldRadio       = 9;
	kFieldCoordLocX   = 10;	
	kFieldCoordLocY   = 11;

	kWidgetButton     = 12;
	kWidgetStaticText = 13;
	kFieldStaticText  = 14;

See the <a href=http://www.vectorlab.info/index.php?title=Events>VectorLab article</a> on object events.

FUNCTION vsoInsertWidget(
             paramID      :LONGINT;
             widgetType   :LONGINT;
             mappingID    :LONGINT;
             text         :STRING;
             data         :LONGINT) :BOOLEAN;

def vs.vsoInsertWidget(paramID, widgetType, mappingID, text, data):
    return BOOLEAN

Parameters

paramID		LONGINT
widgetType		LONGINT
mappingID		LONGINT
text		STRING
data		LONGINT

Remarks

This function inserts a widget into the OIP. It allows the user to define the location of where this widget will be in the OIP widget list.

paramID: The ID and location of where this widget will be displayed in the OIP. widgettype: Type of widget to create. mappingID: ordinal value of object parameter that corresponds to this widget. text: the label to be displayed on OIP for this widget. data: not implemented yet.

At least in 2008, there might be a bug in this call. The "mappingID" argument doesn't seem to be registering the index of the widget properly, and as a result, if the widget is a button, you won't get the proper index in the button click event. If somebody fully investigates this, and determines that it's a bug, he/she should enter a bug report.

vsoAppendWidget still works OK.

It looks like the problem occurs if you don't declare kObjXPropHasUIOverride (kObjXPropHasUIOverride is FALSE or not declared):

result := SetObjPropVS(kObjXPropHasUIOverride, TRUE);

Example

<pre>kOnInitPropertiesEventID: 
BEGIN
   resultStatus := SetObjPropVS(kObjectHasUIOverrideID, TRUE);
   resultStatus := vsoInsertParamWidget(1,1, 'Unused number', 0);
   resultStatus := vsoInsertParamWidget(2,2, 'Static Text Widget', 0);
   resultStatus := vsoInsertParamWidget(3,3, 'Enter junk here', 0);
   resultStatus := vsoInsertParamWidget(4,4, 'Previous static text', 0);
   resultStatus := vsoInsertWidget(5,kWidgetButton, 5,'Update Text', 0);
END;</pre>

Version

Availability: from All Versions

This is drop-in function.