Hi Fargo, On Jun 30, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Fargo Holiday wrote:
I'm certainly no expert, but couldn't you just track the change using a global variable, which is updated via the radiobutton's index when Action is fired? Maybe even create a method to convert the index result to whatever data you need, then update your global (s), and have that method called when Action fires.
That's an interesting idea, but I'm afraid it doesn't really address the issue I'm grappling with here.
I'm trying to come up with a mechanism, i.e., a method inside of a module, that can easily identify the field inside of a V4RB2 database that is changed as the result of someone clicking on a RadioButton inside ANY GroupBox collection of such controls.
The concept is that every RadioButton will have a boolean field in the V4RB2 database associated with it.
If one RadioButton is selected, i.e., set to TRUE, I can easily capture that using the Action to call the module-method. However, since REALbasic (RB) automatically turns the other RadioButtons in the GroupBox to FALSE, it's not as easy as I would like to capture those reset controls in the V4RB2 database fields associated with them, as there is no way to easily hook into the mechanism that the GroupBox is using, at least as far as I can determine.
I've tried the approach that Terry Ford suggested; setting the value of a RadioButton with a line of code. But he is correct that setting a RadioButton's value to FALSE does NOT trigger an Action event. As a result, both boolean fields in the V4RB2 database, each associated with one of the buttons, are now showing TRUE; which should not be the case.
So, I guess I'll just have to knuckle down and write the necessary, but egregious, extra lines of a loop to do something that I am confident, REALSoft can build into RB in the, hopefully, not too distant future; a means to call Actions and/or a call to a GroupBox that will return the caption of the selected RadioButton.
However, I'm open to other suggestions on how to skin this particular cat.
Regards, Chuck _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
