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x_choose
interactive window choice (modal dialog)
Calling Sequence
[num]=x_choose(items,title [,button])
Arguments
- items
column vector of string, items to choose
- title
column vector of string, comment for the dialog
- button
string, text to appear in the button. Default value is 'Cancel'
- num
integer, chosen item number or 0 if dialog resumed with "Cancel" button
Description
Returns in num the number of the chosen item.
 | WARNING: this dialog was not modal before Scilab 5.0, please use x_choose_modeless for ascendant compatibility. |
Examples
n = x_choose(['item1';'item2';'item3'],['that is a comment';'for the dialog']) n = x_choose(['item1';'item2';'item3'],['that is a comment'],'Return')
See Also
- x_choose_modeless — interactive window choice (not modal dialog)
- x_choices — interactive Xwindow choices through toggle buttons
- x_mdialog — Dialog for interactive vector/matrix input.
- getvalue — xwindow dialog for data acquisition
- unix_g — shell (sh) command execution, output redirected to a variable
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