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Custom "window"-ed form, assign "Enter" for specific callback.

FlxZer

Hi everyone.

I've stumbled across an issue that I couldn't solve myself by reading though skuiref.pdf or any other related document or discussion. I've created a custom tool with a GUI. Using hiCreateAppForm I was able to specify a callback to be executed when "Enter" button is pressed. I achieved this by setting ?callback and ?buttonLayout in the corresponding way:

hiCreateAppForm(
...
?buttonLayout 'ApplyCancel
?callback "myCB()"
...
)

 With it, user was able to swiftly type a term in a search field and press "Enter" to initiate the query ( myCB() ). So far, so good. However, I recently decided to put the my form into a window, thus it can be effectively min/maximized by user and allows me to add new menus in the banner field. Everything works smoothly, but since the form is now "Window"-ed ,  ?buttonLayout 'ApplyCancel and ?callback "myCB()" are no longer effective since the GUI does not have native Apply/Cancel buttons anymore.
 My question: is there a way to specify a default callback to be executed when Enter button is pressed, for a Window-ed form? As an example of what I'm trying to achieve is "Go" button in SKILL API Finder.
 hiCreateWindow does not have any parameter that resembles  buttonLayout & callback functionality and I couldn't identify a key binding function that would accept win_Id as input.  

Any help would be much appreciated!

Regards,
Boris

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  • you can create a button widget as part of the form like this:

    myform=hiCreateAppForm(?name 'my_form

          ?fields list(

               hiCreateStringField(?name 'myStrField ?prompt "enter something" ?value "" ?defValue "" ?editable t)

               hiCreateButton(?name 'myButton ?buttonText "Apply" ?callback "printf(\"myButton Callback\n\n\")")

           )

    )

    mywin=hiCreateWindow('default "form" "MyApp" "" nil myform) 

    hiDisplayWindow(mywin)

    if you don't want the fields to span the whole width of the window, then read about 2D forms.  Basically that list of widgets would be a list of lists like:

    x=0

    y=0

    dy=40

    w=400

    h=20

    pw=200

    list(

      list( hiCreateStringField(...) list(x, y+=dy), w:h, pw)

      list(hiCreate....)

    )

    You can read about those layout parameters (x, y, w, h, pw) in the manual.

    Hope this helps.

    -Dan

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  • you can create a button widget as part of the form like this:

    myform=hiCreateAppForm(?name 'my_form

          ?fields list(

               hiCreateStringField(?name 'myStrField ?prompt "enter something" ?value "" ?defValue "" ?editable t)

               hiCreateButton(?name 'myButton ?buttonText "Apply" ?callback "printf(\"myButton Callback\n\n\")")

           )

    )

    mywin=hiCreateWindow('default "form" "MyApp" "" nil myform) 

    hiDisplayWindow(mywin)

    if you don't want the fields to span the whole width of the window, then read about 2D forms.  Basically that list of widgets would be a list of lists like:

    x=0

    y=0

    dy=40

    w=400

    h=20

    pw=200

    list(

      list( hiCreateStringField(...) list(x, y+=dy), w:h, pw)

      list(hiCreate....)

    )

    You can read about those layout parameters (x, y, w, h, pw) in the manual.

    Hope this helps.

    -Dan

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