[kepler-users] Port parameter like "combo box" - do we have something like this in Kepler

[Ben Leinfelder]

Hi Michal,
For use at runtime, you can present a combobox dialog that prompts for a selection and then outputs the selected value. Take a look at the Python examples distributed with Kepler to see if this will be useful for you.
-ben

On Sep 24, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Michal Owsiak <michal.owsiak at man.poznan.pl> wrote:

> Hello Kepler team,
> 
> I am looking for something that resembles combo box inside workflow.
> 
> The idea here is that I define the parameter with values: {"a", "b", "c" } and then, I choose from one of these by right-click or click.
> 
> Question here is. Do we have something like this in Kepler.
> 
> Our approach, now, follows:
> 
> a = "some value"
> b = "some value b"
> c = "some completely different value"
> actual_parameter = a|b|c
> 
> This way, we can determine the value of the parameter while still making everything pretty much consistent.
> 
> However, this requires to edit the value and requires numerous parameters on canvas. If you have few of them with lots of options they can consume most of the workflow canvas.
> 
> So, question is: do we have some sort of combo box as parameter inside Kepler.
> 
> Thanks for the info
> 
> Michal
> 
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> Michal Owsiak <michal.owsiak at man.poznan.pl>
> 
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