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I am writing a GUI in NEURON to facilitate some of the operations I often perform. Using the GUI commands (xbutton and that family) one can create a "get a number " input through the GUI commands (4, 6 etc'). However I could not see the equivalent for getting a string from the user which would be very useful for me. There is an option to pop up a window but is there an equivalent of the number way of doing this?

You're probably referring to string_dialog()--see
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/stati ... ing_dialog
But isn't this "the equivalent for getting a string from the user"?

I was ineed referring to string_dialog(). I thought perhaps there is an option to do this without popping up a dialogue box. Just as the xvalue function can get a number from the user without the need for a popup.

hoc does not have such a feature.