About Draw Widgets

Draw widgets are graphics windows that appear as part of a widget hierarchy rather than appearing as an independent window. Like other graphics windows, draw widgets can be created to use either Direct or Object graphics. (See Graphic Display Essentials (Using IDL) for a discussion of IDL's two graphics modes.) Draw widgets allow designers of IDL graphical user interfaces to take advantage of the full power of IDL graphics in their displays. See "WIDGET_DRAW" (IDL Reference Guide) for a complete description of the function used to create draw widgets.