I think if you just set the icon and the hilite icon of the radio buttons to graphics of different colors, it will do what you want.
-- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.com On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:13 PM, David Glasgow < [email protected]> wrote: > Revolutionaries, > > I have several cards containing many radio buttons, and want to have a > summary screen which consists of an array of colour indicators reflecting > the status of the scattered radio buttons. I remembered that many years ago > I made some radio buttons that didn't look like radio buttons (they were > intended to function and look a bit like the pop up - down mechanical > buttons on old cassette recorders). So I set out the summary card with radio > buttons which are set and reset by user actions on corresponding groups on > the relevant card. That works fine. A brief script built around > > set the hilitedbutton of SummaryGroupOnCard1 to the hilitedbutton of the > owner of the target > > does the trick. > > However, the summary display can't look like radio buttons in the final > product, because users will quite reasonably expect to be able to click on > them. I planned to change the properties of the summary buttons after I had > finished laying out and scripting the cards the users will actually interact > with. > > When the time came, I started to set and tweak properties and colours of > the buttons on the summary card, but couldn't get the simple plain colour > patch which switches on or off mutually exclusively with its fellow group > members. > > After maybe an hour of futile clicking, I set out to find the buttons I > made years ago, and to my amazement succeeded. However, I *still* can't > find out how I made the radio buttons not have the little radio button blob > in the middle. There is no scripting involved, and no icons. They do have > hilited text and fill colours that match - if they don't, a little dot > appears when selected, like old Win radio buttons (I am on OS X). > Selection is only indicated by a change in the border. However, even though > I have matched as many properties and colours as I can find, my new radio > buttons insist on having the radio button blob. > > I know I could just copy the little group I have, and use them, but this is > really bugging me. Was I quite clever years ago, or am I being quite dumb > now? > > David Glasgow > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
