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User Interface Toolkit Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the IDL's graphical user interface toolkit in the IDL 6.4 release:

Title Bar Icons for Base Widgets

IDL now supports (for Windows platforms only) the ability to add title bar icons to base widgets. The new BITMAP and MASK keywords to WIDGET_BASE allow this functionality. For more information, see IDL Routine Enhancements.

Draw Widget Wheel Events on Motif Platforms

IDL on Motif platforms now supports the WHEEL_EVENTS keyword to WIDGET_DRAW. Wheel events have been supported on Windows platforms since IDL version 6.2.

  IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)