TickerDialog not showing

[Jeff]

Vizconfig panels support text boxes that filter for float or int values. Would this work for you?

''' 
Press F12 to toggle the visibility
of the configuration window 
''' 

import viz
import vizconfig
import vizinfo

viz.setMultiSample(4)
viz.fov(60)
viz.go()

vizinfo.InfoPanel()

gallery = viz.add('gallery.osgb')

value = 25.0

def getValue():
	return value
	
def setValue(v):
	value=v
	
#Create a configurable object
bc= vizconfig.BasicConfigurable('Enter a float value between (-50,50)')
bc.addFloatItem('float value',range=(-50,50),fset=setValue,fget=getValue)

#register the object so it will display in the configuration window
vizconfig.register(bc)

[fordprefect]

Hi Jeff,

thank you for pointing me to vizconfig.
It seems that I can put that to good use, though I'll have to rework my menu system...
My opinion is to prohibit unwanted user input rather than telling the user afterwards that I didn't like his input - meaning, I'd prefer that you can't enter letters or non-number special characters into a number (int, float) textbox at all.
what about that TickerDialog and Panels, though...?

Best Regards, Walter

[fordprefect]

P.S.
On the vizconfig basics help page (with the local beta-3 as well as the online version Vizard5 Online Help) some methods are omitted:

• addLabelItem
• addBoolLabelItem

And another question, why are the additional examples and the screenshot now missing which were available in Vizard4 Online Help? Especially the screenshot gives a good idea what to expect, without having to run an example script.

Best Regards, Walter

[fordprefect]

P.P.S:

there seems to be an error in an error message; when you supply only one positional argument to addBoolLabelItem, the error reads:
TypeError: addBoolLabelItem() takes at least 1 argument (2 given) which should most likely be the other way round (at least 2 arguments and just 1 given)

and I suggest to add documentation strings to the BasicConfigurable.add* resources, to ease scripting (I use that tooltip feature in the IDE quite a lot). Pleeeeease...