Changing property of grouped buttons

[DavJans]

Is there a way to do something like this?

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set the backgroundcolor of all the buttons in group "group1"

Thank you

[Klaus]

Hi DavJans,

sure, but you have to use a repeat loop:

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...
repeat with i = 1 to the num of btns of grp "group1"
  set the backgroundcolor of btn i of grp "group1" to 1,2,3
end repeat
...

OTOH, if you set the group to non-opaque and the backgroundcolor of the buttons to empty, then you can set the backgroundcolor of the group and the buttons will inherit this property.

Best

Klaus

[DavJans]

Thank you Klaus.

The repeat will work.

My problem with setting the backgroundcolor of the group is the buttons are all empty except the one clicked. using the group color doesn't change the color of the last button pushed back to empty.

[DavJans]

button"A4": execution error at line 5 (Chunk: can't find background), char 25
What did I do wrong? Is it because I created all the buttons before I grouped them?

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global selLOC

on mouseUp
   lock screen
   repeat with i = 1 to the num of btns of grp "LOC Group"
      set the backgroundcolor of btn i of grp "LOC Group" to empty
      set the textcolor of btn i of grp "LOC Group" to empty
   end repeat
   set the backgroundcolor of me to blue
   set the textcolor of me to white
   put the label of me into selLOC
   unlock screen
end mouseUp

[Klaus]

Hm, very strange, just made a test with three grouped buttons and with that above script attached to the first button in the group and it executed without any error!?

I'm using LC 9 on macOS 10.13.4

[dunbarx]

Works for me as well.

The error indicates perhaps that you have misnamed the group?

Craig Newman

[bogs]

What did I do wrong? Is it because I created all the buttons before I grouped them?

I suspect Craig is correct, it is probably a name issue. It would not be due to creation order (or shouldn't be, anyway).

[dunbarx]

To test, just insert a lime that:

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if there is a group "grp "LOC Group" then... 

See if the same error comes up.


Craig

[bogs]

...just insert a lime that:

<giggling childishly> don't let the 'lime' sour you on the antidote

[DavJans]

Works for me as well.

The error indicates perhaps that you have misnamed the group?

Craig Newman

Correct. My apologies for wasting all of your time.

[dunbarx]

Bogs.

One might say this was a lemon.

I so love spell check.

Craig

[bogs]

I wouldn't change it for the world, it makes life humorous