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Making a DRO read-only?
« on: April 22, 2009, 12:45:02 PM »
I'm trying to find a way to make a given DRO read only.  I'm populating the DRO with the results of a formula using values input from other DRO's and it seems that allowing this particular DRO to be edited just causes confusion for users - it doesn't really harm anything, since the user-input value is just overwritten, but for usability's sake I'd love to make the DRO non-editable.

Is this possible?

Apologies if this one's obvious - I've tried searching with a few different terms, but the results of a search for DRO and edit aren't exactly helpful in this case.

-Matt

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Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2009, 02:01:17 PM »
Dont think it is possible I am afraid.
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Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2009, 10:26:15 AM »
you might try to put a transparent button over the top of the DRO  ;)
Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2009, 10:27:12 AM »
I haven't tested this yet.... but you might try to put a transparent button over the top of the DRO  ;)

Thanks for the idea.  I'll give that a shot and let you know if it works.

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Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2009, 11:05:58 AM »
If it works, you can make the button run a script to alert the user that the DRO is read only.
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Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2009, 12:23:38 PM »
This program and it's capabilities constantly amazes me!
Seems you can do everything with it.

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Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2009, 07:39:30 PM »
Acualy,
Since you are writing the code...send it to a User Label they are read only from the GUI.

Code: [Select]
myResults = "some stuff"
SetUserLabel(10, myResults)
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Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2009, 01:06:57 AM »
Sorry for this stupid question.

What is GUI?

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Re: Making a DRO read-only?
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2009, 01:16:38 AM »
GUI is = Graphical User Interface

You can write to UserLabels using script but you can not click on them with the mouse to enter in values from the Mach screen.