[Newbie Question] hilite of button 1 group 1 -- help please

[shawnblc]

Here's my code. What I'm trying to do is if the check box is checked then at least one in the group needs checked.

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      if the hilite of btn "1" is true and the hilite of group "group1" is false then
        set the visible of graphic "rec1" to true
    else
        set the visible of graphic "rec1" to false
        end if

[Klaus]

Hi shawn,

1. it is a really bad idea to give objects a name with a "pure" NUMBER!
Beause the engine will get confused and treats -> button "1" as the button with the NUMBER 1
(lowest layer) even if that button is actually button number 666!

Use something like -> button "b1"

2. GROUPS do not have a hilite property, so what exactly do you want to achieve with:
the hilite of group "group1" ?


Best

Klaus

[shawnblc]

Hi shawn,

1. it is a really bad idea to give objects a name with a "pure" NUMBER!
Beause the engine will get confused and treats -> button "1" as the button with the NUMBER 1
(lowest layer) even if that button is actually button number 666!

Use something like -> button "b1"

2. GROUPS do not have a hilite property, so what exactly do you want to achieve with:
the hilite of group "group1" ?


Best

Klaus

Point taken. I'll make those changes.

What I'm trying to accomplish is this (see below example):

[] Clothes
[] Pants
[] Shorts
[] Shoes
[] Socks

so if clothes is checked, then at least on of the others should be checked. If not I need a red graphic that shows around the group (pants, shorts, shoes, socks).

[Klaus]

Hi shawn,

What I'm trying to accomplish is this (see below example):

[] Clothes
[] Pants
[] Shorts
[] Shoes
[] Socks

so this is a group of radiobuttons?

so if clothes is checked, then at least on of the others should be checked. If not I need a red graphic that shows around the group (pants, shorts, shoes, socks).

If yes, you can check:
1. the hilitedbutton of grp "your radio group here"
Will return the NUMBER Of that button in the group
OR
2. the hilitedbuttonname of grp "your radio group here"
Will return the NAME of the button

So you could do something like this in the group script:

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on mouseup
  switch the hilitedbuttonname of me
  case "Clothes"
   ## do whatever needs to be done...
  break
  case "Pants"
   ## do whatever you need to to in case the user selected PANTS
  break
  ## etc...
  end switch
end mouseup

You get the picture


Best

Klaus

[shawnblc]

No it's checkboxes.

[magice]

how about something like this:

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put false into tButtonCheck
repeat with i = 1 to the number of buttons in group "group1"
if the hilite of button i of group "group1" is true then put true into tButtonCheck
end repeat

   if the hilite of btn "1" is true and tButtonCheck is false then
        set the visible of graphic "rec1" to true
    else
        set the visible of graphic "rec1" to false
        end if

not tested, but I think you'll get the idea.

[Klaus]

No it's checkboxes.

AHA!

so you need to check if one of:
[] Pants
[] Shorts
[] Shoes
[] Socks
Is checked at all or ALL are unchecked?

I ususally write little function for this:

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function is_something_checked
  repeat for each item tButton in "pants,shorts,shoes,socks"
    if the hilite of btn i = TRUE then
      ## At least ONE button has been checked
      return TRUE
   end if
  end repeat

  ## No button checked:
  return FALSE
end is_something_checked

Hope that helps!


Best

Klaus