Re: disabled buttons

[Thomas McGrath III]

Ken,

That is a great use of available storage for icons. I like it.

Now, Does anyone know why I can't move a button in a group by name??? I 
can move it by ID.
the group is called "Button 1"
the button I want to move is called "Button 1a" - placeholder button 
for icon over other buttons
me is the group
another button is called "Button 1" - available button
another button is called "Button 1b" - unavailable button

-------- works ------
put the id of button (the short name of me & "a") into myTempButton
move button id myTempButton relative 5,5
-------- does not work ------------
move button (the short name of me & "a") relative 5,5
-------- does not work -----------
move button (quote & the short name of me & "a" & quote") relative 5,5
------- does not work ------------
put (the short name of me & "a") into myTempButton
move button myTempButton relative 5,5
------- does not work -----------
put (quote & the short name of me & "a" & quote) into myTempButton
move button myTempButton relative 5,5
I am a little thrown by this. Remember this button is one of three in a 
group. I only want to move the one button in the group.

Tom

On Feb 26, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

Tom,

One approach might be to *use* the disabledIcon as a storage option, 
but
not *set* the button to be disabled (so a non-available button would 
use
the disabledIcon, but would still be able to be clicked). Use a custom
property to hold the "normal" icon so you can re-establish it. 
Something
like this:

  -- Assumes that each button contains a custom property called
  -- "uAvailIcon" that holds the ID number of the image that is to
  -- be displayed for available buttons.
  on MakeUnavailable pBtnDescriptor
    set the icon of pBtnDescriptor to (the disabledIcon of
pBtnDescriptor)
  end MakeUnavailable
  on MakeAvailable pBtnDescriptor
    set the icon of pBtnDescriptor to (the uAvailIcon of 
pBtnDescriptor)
  end MakeUnavailable

  on mouseUp
    if the icon of me = the disabledIcon of me then
      -- run "clicked on unavailable button" code
    else
      -- run "clicked on available button" code
    end if
  end mouseUp
Now if you need to have a hilite state for both available and
unavailable buttons, you could swap out the hiliteIcon of the button 
the
same way...

Just a thought,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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-----Original Message-----
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Thomas McGrath III
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:32 AM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: disabled buttons
Ken yeah that's what I did last time in SC. So I will do it again.

But for this project a disabled button does not do what a
non-disabled
button would do BUT if a user hits a disabled button it 'resets' the
system of which buttons are available. I should use the term
available
and non-available (since disabled in rev means dead) whereas my
non-available buttons still have life in them ie. they reset the
system.
You see it is the nature of sequenced buttons that on a third
hit of a
sequence you decided to back out of the sequence you can just hit a
non-available button to reset the system to be ready for a first hit
again.
Since I am combining two buttons in a group to get the look
and feel I
need I am thinking of adding a third invisible image to the
group that
when the icon is unavailable the image will trap the message.
Did you look at my buttons example?
put this in the message box:
go URL "http://users.adelphia.net/~3mcgrath/Buttons.rev";

This shows the button without a disabled state/ unavailable
state. Each
will be  built via script and would show different icons.
Thanks
Tom
On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:30 AM, Ken Norris wrote:

I'm having difficulty making any sense of why a user would expect a
disabled
button to do anything, but you could put a mouseUp handler
in the card
instead of the button and spec it thus:
Thomas J. McGrath III
SCS
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Pittsburgh, PA 15234
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