Hello everyone,
I have a question about buttons formatted as option menus. I created a
standalone for my students that allows them to submit answers to multiple
choice homework assignments via FTP to my Mac at work. Once in a while I will
receive a blank submission from a student
Gregory,
I did a quick test with option menus in stack created on a Mac and tested on
Win7 under Parallels, they behaved exactly the same when using the arrow keys
to choose the selection then pressing enter/return to record the choice, the
main difference I could find is that on the Mac you
On 2/2/13 10:00 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
I took a look at this on my Mac, and although I seldom use the arrow
keys, I can select answers in option menus using the arrow keys, and
I can send them fine. My handler simply loops through the option
buttons and gathers the answers by taking the
On Feb 2, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
One of the biggest challenges I find in developing is thinking of all the
ways things could go wrong, or what users may do differently than expected
that will affect the data, and then covering all those options.
Absolutely. Someone on this
After some more tests in the LC IDE on Mac and Win7, plus building stand-alones
I found a few discrepancies with the selectedLine on Win7, it all seems to work
as expected on Mac.
Reading the selectedLine does not appear to be reliable with option menus in
Win7 stand alone apps if there is no
Hello Paul, Jacqueline, and Peter,
Thank you for responding to my question on arrow-key selection of
option menu items. It was generous of you to go out of your way to test things
on a Windows box. Recently, I built in a check that warns students of the
number of blanks, if any, they
I would have said that a tool is used to make a product, while a product is
produced using a tool. I don't get the proper use and prevention of use
thingummy.
Bob
On Feb 2, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
One of the biggest challenges I find in developing is thinking of all the
