Now, this is a _very_ interesting clue. If I use a similar example,
view/new lay: layout [ button button button ] lay/pane/1/text: "hithere" show lay/pane/1 wait none The text on the button changes. In fact, I can change it to anything I like, again and again. But if I do something like: view/new lay: layout [ button "test" button "test1" button "test" ] lay/pane/1/text: "hithere" show lay/pane/1 wait none Or view/new lay: layout [ button copy "test" button copy "test1" button copy "test" ] lay/pane/1/text: "hithere" show lay/pane/1 wait none Then the text is fixed to be "test". Every time I show, Rebol changes it back to the original text (which was test); Rebol must be storing the original text in some hidden place when I created the button, and always refreshing from that, rather than from the values stored I was expecting. (this also seems to apply to colors). So if I create a grid of blank buttons (or possibly uncolored buttons), I might be able to programatically change the appearance of the button to simulate non-mouse highlighting. Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Anton Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: Question on text formatting A while back, when View was upgraded, the button style became more complicated, using a gradient effect. Anyhow, here's an example of how to change the first button in a face containing three buttons. view/new center-face lay: layout [ button button button ] ; modify first button lay/pane/1/effects: [ [gradient 0x1 166.120.192 0.0.200] ; normal [gradient 0x-1 66.120.192 44.80.132] ; pressed ] lay/pane/1/effect: first lay/pane/1/effects show lay/pane/1 wait none ; wait for events see also print mold lay/pane/1/feel Anton. > Thanks for your help so far! > > > << and if anyone knows of an easy way to force one of the > buttons on the scrolling grid to be "selected" my day would be complete > :-) >> > > >FOCUS is what you use to select a specific face. I'm not sure it will > do > >what you want here though. Buttons don't respond to many keystroke by > >default (you can, of course, add that behavior). I think Brett Handley > did a > >grid style that let you move from face to face with the keyboard. Maybe > it > >was Cyphre. So many talented people write great stuff that I lose > track. :) > > > view layout [a: button [print "A"] b: button [focus a]] > > > What I am after is a way to programatically make one of the buttons in > the grid appear to be selected. I don't have a mouse for this > application; everything is done via a keypad. > > I was wondering if there were any tricks I could be using to get that > effect. > > (like, is there a way I could iterate through the list of buttons > associated with a particular face, and somehow change that buttons color > ?) > > Thanks, > > > Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
