Now THAT is easy. Here, use this function.
ControlPtr buttonP;
CharPtr labelP;
// Get the object pointer...see the Palm OS Companion or Knowledge Base
// it's a really simple function, and store the object pointer of the
// button in buttonP
labelP = CtlGetLabel(buttonP);
Voila! labelP is a null-terminated string with the label of the control
(button or otherwise).
Then deal with the string however you please (you may want to do a
conversion of some sort if you need to do an arithmetic operation.)
-Rus
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick Ouellet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:30 PM
>To: Palm Developer Forum
>Subject: Re: Newbie to Palm question about using variable
>
>
>Since everyone is talking about my syntax
>and not about what I want to know
>
>I'll change my question a little bit...
>
>How would you do this...
>
>I want to insert into a string the caption of the button that has been
>pressed
>now insert code in this...
>
>static Boolean MainFormHandleEvent(EventPtr eventP)
>{
>
> Boolean handled = false;
> FormPtr frmP;
>
> switch (eventP->eType)
> {
> case ctlSelectEvent:
> {
> switch(eventP->data.ctlEnter.controlID)
> {
> case MainBtnStarButton:
> break;
>
> case MainBtnToeButton:
> break;
>
> case MainBtn0Button:
> break;
>
> case MainBtn1Button:
> break;
>
> case MainBtn2Button:
> break;
>
> case MainBtn3Button:
> break;
> }
>
> handled = true;
> break;
> }
>
> case menuEvent:
> return MainFormDoCommand(eventP->data.menu.itemID);
>
> case frmOpenEvent:
> frmP = FrmGetActiveForm();
> MainFormInit( frmP);
> FrmDrawForm ( frmP);
> handled = true;
> break;
>
> default:
> break;
>
> }
> return handled;
>}
>
>Where MainBtn""Button are numpad like button
>Star is *
>and Toe is for the # button
>
>
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>
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