Assigning message handlers by script

kroka · Post by **kroka** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:17 pm

Hello! I am still quite new to Revolution but I am beginning to appreciate it more and more. Coming from traditional programming I had to get used to some of the concepts - but surprisingly it showed that most of the time things worked exactly the way I was thinking about them.

Now I have a problem that I cannot solve on my own. It might be easy or obvious but I can't find anything about it in the documentation:

I am writing a program where some multiple choice options are presented in form of buttons (between 5 and 50) on an extra stack. I create these buttons at runtime dynamically. So far everything is fine. But I want the buttons to react when you click them. So I need to assign some "on mouseDown" script to each of these newly created buttons. How can I do this by script? Or - can I do this at all? If not - which would be the alternative?

Help is very appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Kroka

kroka · Post by **kroka** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:51 pm

By trying out and reading some of the posts here I came to a solution which is not exactly what I was thinking of but it works for my purpose.

I just assigned a "mouseUp" handler to the card script which analyzes the target and distinguishes the buttons by their labels to react differently for each type of button.

As far as I understand this would be the common way to deal with such things. Am I right? As usual - simple but powerful.

malte · Post by **malte** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:34 pm

Hey kroka,

exactly. If you need to do such sort of dynamics, place the script in the card, stack or a library. You could set the script of a button, however that might bit you when it comes to compile time. As soon as you use more than 10 statements in the script you set in a standalone, the scriptlimits will bite you and it will not compile.

Cheers,

Malte

malte · Post by **malte** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:35 pm

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Malte

mwieder · Post by **mwieder** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:30 am

http://revolutionboard.de/smf/index.php?topic=98.0 is hilarious!

kotikoti · Post by **kotikoti** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:46 am

Hi Malte,
Please advice on this script limits and where/how the apply to a standalone application.

Kroka, Please check the scipt anatomy discussions @
http://support.runrev.com/scriptingconferences/ contains some details on how to dynamically assign script to objects at runtime.