Re: Dynamic menus on base widget using MBAR

[Ricardo Fonseca <zamb(at)physics.ucla.edu>]

I have read (your page is the first I usually go to...) but I haven't been
able to make it work with the MBAR menu (or APP_MBAR on the Mac). In fact
just destroying one of the buttons results in a spectacular system crash as
soon as I use the menu (IDL 5.1.1, Mac). Any other suggestion?

Ricardo

> From: davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning)
> Organization: Fanning Software Consulting
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:59:09 -0600
> Subject: Re: Dynamic menus on base widget using MBAR
> 
> Ricardo Fonseca (zamb@physics.ucla.edu) writes:
> 
>> Is there a way to dynamically change the menu on a base widget? When I begin
>> my program I create a menu using the MBAR keyword on the WIDGET_BASE
>> function. While it is running, and depending on user input, I'd like to
>> change the menu to a completely different one.
>> 
>> So far I've attempted to destroy the old button widgets and regenerating the
>> menu, but it's not working.
> 
> I wrote an article about how to do this and put it on my
> web page:
> 
> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/dynamic_menus.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
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