SWAP bettwen 2 buttons

[pajito]

Just an idea...

Make use of segmented control widgets
step 1) add 2 segmented control widgets on the card and name them resp "ButtonRow1" and "ButtonRow2"
step 2) add a button TRANS with the code below.

Select an option on each button row then press button TRANS.
(Be aware that the widget initially has no highlited item, i did not code for this situation).

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on mouseUp
    put the hilitedItems of widget "ButtonRow1" into tRow1
    put the hilitedItems of widget "ButtonRow2" into tRow2
    answer "Ok now switch" 
    set the hilitedItems of widget "ButtonRow1" to tRow2
    set the hilitedItems of widget "ButtonRow2" to tRow1
end mouseUp

Friendly regards,

Paul

Hi Paul I tried it and it worked, if there is no hilited item at start,thank you so much. It is a good start for me.
thanks again

[pajito]

Group the PGM buttons and name the group "PGM". Group the PRV buttons and name the group "PRV".

Script of group "PGM":

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on mouseUp
  repeat with x = 1 to the number of btns of me
    set textcolor of btn x of me to "black"
    set the backcolor of btn x of me to "white"
  end repeat
  set textcolor of the target to "yellow"
  set the backcolor of the target to "red"
end mouseUp

Script of group "PRV":

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on mouseUp
  repeat with x = 1 to the number of btns of me
    set the backcolor of btn x of me to "white"
  end repeat
  set the backcolor of the target to "green"
end mouseUp

Script of button "trans":

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on mouseUp
  set the backgroundcolor of me to "YELLOW"
  -- get the currently active btn in each grp:
  repeat with x = 1 to the number of btns in grp "PGM"
    if the backcolor of btn x of grp "PGM" = "red" then
      put x into tPGMBtn
      exit repeat
    end if
  end repeat
  repeat with x = 1 to the number of btns in grp "PRV"
    if the backcolor of btn x of grp "PRV" = "green" then
      put x into tPRVBtn
      exit repeat
    end if
  end repeat
  -- reverse swap:
  send "mouseUp" to btn tPGMBtn of grp "PRV"
  send "mouseUp" to btn tPRVBtn of grp "PGM"
end mouseUp

Is that what you need to happen? This method doesn't require any global variables.

Klaus is right, radioBehavior only works on radio buttons, at least in newer versions of LC, even though the property is available in the inspector. Craig, what button type are you using? I only checked rectangle buttons, but historically the behavior was named "radioBehavior" for a reason.

Hi jacque

you saved the game, I tried your codes and they work prerfectly. It was a very smart way to handle everything. Thank you so much.

[pajito]

Hey everybody,
first of all I had to thank each and every one of you. Either your suggestions worked or partially worked, you gave me lot of ideas of how to continue.
The software I am stragling to create its quite big in coding, you will have some screenshots and videos as soon as I get to a satisfying point.
Thank YOU ALL again

Warm Regards
Pajito

[Klaus]

Hi Craig,

Jacque, Klaus.

All types, in v.6.7.
Odd that this would have changed in later versions, since hardly anyone even knew about it.

Craig

just made a test with Metacard, LC engine 5.5.4) and it did not work, "the hilitedbutton of grp 1" returned 0!
Too funky, but since it was not supposed to work this way, I don't care


Best

Klaus

[jacque]

I tried your codes and they work prerfectly.

Glad to help. You will get smoother screen updates if you put "lock screen" at the top of each handler and "unlock screen" at the end. I forgot to do that.