Populate buttons onMouseclick

[ace]

Please help. . .

i want to populate buttons when a certain button is clicked and automatically set their size and location.

[Klaus]

Hi ace,

could please answer your other thread (slider zoom inout in case you are still interested?

i want to populate buttons...

If you mean MENUS (popup, option etc...) then this script will create a three line menu in that button:
line 1
line 2
line 3

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set the text of btn "the one you want to populate..." to "line 1" & CR & "line 2" & CR & "line 3"
...

... when a certain button is clicked...

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on mouseup
  ## do this and that
end mouseup

... automatically set their size and location.

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set the WIDTH of btn "xyz" to 100
set the HEIGHT of btn "xyz" to 80

## or directly set the complete RECT:
## set the RECT of btn "xyz" to 10,10,200,180
set the LOC of btn "xyz" to 500,478
## LOC = abbr. location
...

You really should take a look at these stacks to get the basics of Livecode:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revscriptc ... ences.html


Best

Klaus

[ace]

Thanks Sir. That's very helpful
But what i mean is, when a button is .clicked, it will automatically populate new buttons and set their location.

[Klaus]

Hi ace,

Thanks Sir. That's very helpful
But what i mean is, when a button is .clicked, it will automatically populate new buttons and set their location.

Well, that is exactly what I wrote!? However only for ONE button!

Could you please explain what you mean and show your efforts in this respect so far?


Best

Klaus

[doobox]

Could you mean "create" new buttons and set there size and location..?

If so in the button script :

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on mouseUp
   repeat with x = 1 to 3
      create button ("newButton" & x)
      set the width of button ("newButton" & x) to 75
      set the height of button ("newButton" & x) to 40
      put x & 00 into tYloc
      set the loc of button ("newButton" & x) to 100,tYloc
   end repeat
end mouseUp

This would create 3 new buttons and set there locations in a vertical column.