NewValueDialog Function

General purpose user input function. A call to NewValueDialog opens a dialog box with an arbitrary number of controls of 5 different types. Any mix of the different types may be used. The following is an example with 8 controls of two different types:

Arguments

Number Type Compulsory Default Description
1 string Yes Control definitions
2 string Yes Initial values
3 string Yes Options

Argument 1

This is a string array of length equal to the total number of controls required. Each element of the array defines the control's label, type and valid range of values. The array elements are of the form: 

label [:type [:range]]
Where:
label is a text string defining the control's label, which may not contain the characters ':' or '|'.
type is one of the following:
REAL Default if type omitted. Displays an edit control with an up-down spinner. Spinner increments in 1:2:5 steps.
INT or INTEGER Displays an edit control with an up-down spinner. Spinner increments linearly with step size of 1.
STRING Displays an edit control
BOOL Displays a check box
LIST Displays a drop down list with entries defined by range .
range Valid range of values for control delimited by '|'. Ignored for STRING and BOOL types and compulsory for LIST type. For REAL and INTEGER types, one or two values may be supplied representing the minimum and maximum valid values. The user will not be able to enter values outside this defined range. For LIST types the range defines the entries in the list.

Argument 2

This is a string array which must have the same number of elements as argument 1. Each element defines the initial value for the control. For BOOL types use the values "true" and "false".

Argument 3

Function options. Currently there is only one and that is the dialog box caption.

Returns

Return type: string array

Example

The following call would display the dialog as shown above. 
Show NewValueDialog(['RIN::0', 'ROUT::0', 'TH', 'HYSTWD::0', 'VOL',
+ 'VOH', 'TRIG_COND:LIST:0_TO_1|1_TO_0', 'IC:LIST:0|1'],
+ ['10Meg', '100', '2', '0.1', '0', '5', '0_TO_1', '0'], ['Edit
+ Device Parameters'])
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