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how to create window and send data to it

Trevor1981

 Hi,

I'm new to skill and have probably a very simple issue with it. I need to create a window and send some data to it, so in short my code should do something like that:

w_id = hiOpenWindow( ...)

fprintf(w_id "blah blah")

fprintf(w_id "more blah blah")

Obviously, fprintf is not the right command for this task as it accepts 'port' type variable and not the window handle.

Does anyone know how to achieve it in SKILL? Thanks for your help. 

Regards,

 T.

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  • Hi Trevor1981,

    here a piece of code based on a form containing a scrolled region and
    a string-field:


    ;first, create the field to print your message to
    mydout = hiCreateOutputStringField(?name 'mydout ?defValue "OUTPUT"
    ?invisible nil
    )
    ; create a scrolled region, place mydout inside
    myds = hiCreateScrollRegion(
    ?name 'myds
    ?fields list( list(mydout 0:0 500:300) )
    )
    ; create a form and place myds into it
    mydform = hiCreateAppForm(?name 'mydform ?fields list( list(myds 0:0 600:350 ) ))
    ; display the form
    hiDisplayForm(mydform)

    ; now you can write to the form by modifying mydform->myds->mydout->value :
    mydform->myds->mydout->value = "OUTTEXT01"
    ; or by just appending new text
    mydform->myds->mydout->value = strcat(mydform->myds->mydout->value "\n" "more outtext")

    slight problem: the scrolled field does not follow your input, could not
    find the correct usage of hiSetScrollBarValue:
    hiSetScrollBarValue(mydform list(0 1000))  (-> applied to the form,)
    behaves as expected (if there is a scrollbar on the form, just reduce the window-size to check)
    but executing hiSetScrollBarValue(myds list(0 1000))
    i run into a warning
    "drawing area is NULL!" and scroll-position doesn't change

    so, there's some more work to do but i hope this is a starting point for
    further steps.


    regards
    Stefan
     

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  • Hi Trevor1981,

    here a piece of code based on a form containing a scrolled region and
    a string-field:


    ;first, create the field to print your message to
    mydout = hiCreateOutputStringField(?name 'mydout ?defValue "OUTPUT"
    ?invisible nil
    )
    ; create a scrolled region, place mydout inside
    myds = hiCreateScrollRegion(
    ?name 'myds
    ?fields list( list(mydout 0:0 500:300) )
    )
    ; create a form and place myds into it
    mydform = hiCreateAppForm(?name 'mydform ?fields list( list(myds 0:0 600:350 ) ))
    ; display the form
    hiDisplayForm(mydform)

    ; now you can write to the form by modifying mydform->myds->mydout->value :
    mydform->myds->mydout->value = "OUTTEXT01"
    ; or by just appending new text
    mydform->myds->mydout->value = strcat(mydform->myds->mydout->value "\n" "more outtext")

    slight problem: the scrolled field does not follow your input, could not
    find the correct usage of hiSetScrollBarValue:
    hiSetScrollBarValue(mydform list(0 1000))  (-> applied to the form,)
    behaves as expected (if there is a scrollbar on the form, just reduce the window-size to check)
    but executing hiSetScrollBarValue(myds list(0 1000))
    i run into a warning
    "drawing area is NULL!" and scroll-position doesn't change

    so, there's some more work to do but i hope this is a starting point for
    further steps.


    regards
    Stefan
     

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