Pause in 'for' loop with opportunity to work with other windows

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Mon, 05/13/2019 - 02:45 am

Hi all,

Is there possibility to make a pause in 'for' loop with the opportunity to work with other windows within Igor Pro? I tried to use DoAlert, but this command doesn't allow to perform actions in other windows. For example, I have a data set of 20 experimental graphs. I use loop for(i=0; i<numItems; i+=1). First, i = 0, display graph, then pause to allow me to perform manual fitting in selected range using specified panel with a number of buttons. Second, i = 1, display graph, then pause to do fitting, and so on. How can I implement it?

Here is the main function:

Function Fit_Semilog()
    DoWindow/F FittingPanel
    if (V_Flag != 0)
        return 0
    endif
       
    NewPanel /N=FittingPanel /K=1 /W=(316,379,680,700) as "Fitting Panel"
    Button FitInFullRange,pos={30.00,20.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=FitInFullRangeProc,title="Fit in full range"
    Button Show_Info,pos={30.00,50.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=Show_InfoProc,title="Show Info"
    Button Hide_Info,pos={30.00,80.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=Hide_InfoProc,title="Hide Info"
    Button FitInSelectedRange,pos={30.00,110.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=FitInSelectedRangeProc,title="Fit in selected range"
    Button SubtractFitValFromFirstPart,pos={30.00,140.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=SubtractFitValFromFirstPartProc,title="SubtractFitValFromFirstPart"
    Button RemoveFitFromGraph,pos={30.00,170.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=RemoveFitFromGraphProc,title="Remove fit from Graph"
    Button TryAgain,pos={30.00,200.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=TryAgainProc,title="Try again"
    Button SaveGraph,pos={30.00,230.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=SaveGraphProc,title="Save Graph"
    Button Continue_,pos={30.00,260.00},size={300.00,20.00},proc=Continue_Proc,title="Continue"
   
    String listX = WaveList("*Time",";","")
    String listY = WaveList("*Int",";","")
    Variable numItems = ItemsInList(listY)
    Variable i
    String nameY, nameX
    for (i=0; i<numItems; i+=1)
        nameX = StringFromList(i,listX)
        nameY = StringFromList(i,listY)
        Wave wX = $nameX
        Wave wY = $nameY
        Display wY vs wX
        ModifyGraph mode=3,marker=19,msize=1,rgb=(0,0,65535)
       
        Display wY vs wX
        ModifyGraph mode=3,marker=19,msize=1,rgb=(0,0,65535)
       
        Display wY vs wX
        ModifyGraph mode=3,marker=19,msize=1,rgb=(0,0,65535)
        // Here should be a pause with opportunity to work with other windows
    endfor
End

macro FitSemilog()
    Fit_semilog()
end