Re: [Visualpython-users] Mulitple Control Panels

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

What's missing in the documentation is that a controls window has an 
attribute "display" which is the display within which those controls are 
displayed. The following code displays a sphere in an ordinary window 
plus two controls windows (with no loop to make the controls active). 
Clicking in the ordinary window makes the second controls window 
visible, then invisible.

from visual.controls import *
sphere()
c1 = controls(x=500, y=0)
toggle()
c2 = controls(x=500, y=400)
button(text="Press")
slider(pos=(-80,-80), axis=(0,100))
scene.mouse.getclick()
c2.display.visible = 0
scene.mouse.getclick()
c2.display.visible = 1

There is a bug I don't understand. After the second click, which makes 
the second control panel visible again, the text is missing from the button.

If you also want users to be able to kill a controls window without 
killing the application, you need to say

c2.display.exit = 0 # default is 1 (true), which kills the application

Bruce Sherwood

Herman, Russ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several control panels, but I do not want them showing at the same time. Is there a way to hide them. I tried several display attribute calls but they did not seem to work. Also, if I close one manually, everything closes. 
>
> Thanks
>
> Russell Herman
>
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