David,
The best solution is the place the title inside each control text field, in
other words, "Public: Control Name"
This is the best, on the fly, solution.
In my Cuckoo Clock program all menu items are changed based on the editing
of each and the return from the dialog also updates the menu item name...
Bruce
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: Changing the Group Text on the fly, for a dialog
Thanks Chip.
Actually, I ended up doing what you suggested, in using a Static. Yet it is
not really the greatest idea. Thing is, the static is locked to one control -
like an Edit box. Now, in the group in question, I have currently three
controls, and a couple more will be added this weekend. Benefit of the
Group.Text, is that when you tab through the different Controls in the group,
the screen reader will read to you, the Group.Text. Thereby, you as an
end-user, will be reminded what the control is going to do, and what
information it will affect. In a project like the one I am currently on, it
will have some impact, whether the user is filling in info that is going to
affect only some local features, or if he is going to affect more widely
activity. That was why, I thought I could have used the Group.Text. And, since
you - on the fly - can change the Title, or Text, of the whole Dialog, and any
other elements that I have worked with, it somehow surprised me the Group.Text
could not be changed right on the go. I have one more backup solution in mind,
which I will be testing tomorrow or something, and if it works, I will let the
community know. Guess my example could be useful also for other projects.
Thanks again, to everyone who responded both on- and off-list. All feedback
help in pulling together a solution that will work the best for the End-User.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:57 PM
Subject: RE: Changing the Group Text on the fly, for a dialog
Hi David,
I had a look at the group control in the object manual, and it has no
properties listed. I had a look at it in the xml designing portion of the
manual, and it says this:
"A group is not a standard control. It is, instead, merely a conceptual
container
that the Window-Eyes XML dialog engine uses to arrange controls in an
aesthetically
pleasing manner. "
Therefore, I believe it's not a control, and doesn't have any properties,
even though I haven't written any test procedure myself to verify this. I did
once try enabling and disabling a group in my own project, and it seemed to
have no effect (I got no errors, but it made no difference to the controls in
the group).
One thing you could try though, which would come very close to simulating
what you described, would be to start with a group with no caption text defined
for it, but add a static control at the top to hold the changeable text. You
might start it out containing some very long string of text, so that no matter
what you changed it to, there would be room enough in the groupbox for the new
string.
Hth,
Chip
From: David [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 3:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Changing the Group Text on the fly, for a dialog
Hey guys,
I have a Dialog, with several Groups defined and setup in the XML file. All
that is great, and I have entered an individual ID for each Group. So, for
instance, I will have the following Group IDs:
Group_RetrieveInfo
Group_SaveInfo
Group_ExitingControls
Ok, what I want to do, is to change the Text property of one of the Groups
- dynamically within my code. That is, based on some other activity and the
state of some of the controls in the dialog, I want - let's say - the Text
property of Group_SaveInfo to change. At one point, it could be set to
"Personal", and at another case, it could be set to "Publicly".
I have tried the following inside my EventHandler function, but keep
getting an error. Guess, because the Group is not part of the Control
collection. But then, what is the correct syntax, please?
' Code Snip-it:
If DObj.Control( "Checkbox_Personal" ).Checked Then
DObj.Control( "Group_SaveInfo" ).Text = "Personal" ' This line
gives an error, that the DObj.Control is not valid.
Else
DObj.Control( "Group_SaveInfo" ).Text = "General Public"
End If
' Snip-it concludes.
Thanks for any corrections you may have for the above.
Regards,
David
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