Thanks Chip:
That sounds logical, I'll give it a try.
Kevin Huber
On 9/3/11, Chip Orange <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> My first thought was that you could store any settings you might change into
> variables before you display your dialog; that should insure that you'd be
> working with the desired .set file and not the winEyes.set file.
>
> When the user is using the dialog to make changes, yu could store the
> results in these variables.
>
> When they're done, and if they click "ok", you could dismiss the dialog and
> wait. you could wait for an amount of time, or there is an event which
> fires each time a .set file is loaded; you could wait until this event
> notifies you that the .set file you took the settings from has been
> reloaded.
>
> Once done waiting, you could then apply any changes to the loaded .set file.
>
> What a weird problem; it just wouldn't have occurred to me that displaying a
> dialog would change the loaded .set file. Can't think of any way around it
> to prevent it from happening, so afraid you'll have to do this extra bit of
> work.
>
> hth,
>
> Chip
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Huber [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: creating a dialog with radio buttons
>
> Hi Chip and others:
> Thanks for all your help with the radio buttons.
> My SetOptions dialog in my ProofReading script is working now except for one
> problem.
> When the dialog loads, Wineyes.set becomes the active set file.
> Therefore, when I change my proofreading settings from within the dialog,
> they are changed in Wineyes.set, but not in the application I am working
> with.
> Is there any way to fix this, other than resetting the scope to Global?
> Kevin Huber
> On 8/17/11, Chip Orange <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> they really turn out to be exactly like working with a checkbox; that
>> is, you work with each radio button as if it were a stand-alone
>> control such as a checkbox. you don't have to do anything which
>> references the other radio buttons in the group; WE will handle this for
> you.
>>
>> Below is an example of my event handler declaration line, and part of
>> the case statement where I handle one radio button; except for the
>> actual event constant I'm testing against, you can't really tell that
>> handling it is much different from handling a checkbox.
>>
>> you'll also need to initialize the particular radio button which is
>> the default in the dialog creation portion (there, you would reference
>> the control by it's name the Way Jeff did in his example for you;
>> that is, you have to use the dialog object, and use it's controls
>> property, which is a collection, pass in the name of the radio button
>> you want to set to true, and you'll get back a radio button object
>> which you can use to set it's .checked property to true). I'll add a
>> bit of the dialog creation code down below as well to show this.
>>
>>
>> Function preferencesDialogEventHandler(dObj, dEvent, dId, _
>> dControl)
>> ' ...
>>
>>
>> Select Case dId
>> Case "table_headers_first_cell"
>> ' above is the ID of the particular radio button I'm testing for;
>> you'll have to have a CASE like this for each radio button
>> If dEvent = radiobuttonClicked Then
>> dControl.Checked = True ' this shifts the radio button
> selection on
>> the screen to this button
>> preferencesDialogEventHandler = True ' and here you'd put
> some code
>> to deal with the radio button which is particular to your app
>> End If
>>
>> Case Else
>> ' now for the choices which are not related to a specific control
>> If dEvent = dialogCreated Then
>> ' initialize a particular radio button to be the default
>> dObj.control("table_headers_off").Checked = True
>> end if
>> end select
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Chip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Huber [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 1:11 PM
>> To: gw-scripting
>> Subject: creating a dialog with radio buttons
>>
>> Hi Chip:
>> I am trying to create a dialog in my ProofReading script in which the
>> user can set each of the proofreading options to his/her preference.
>> I have created the dialog using the UI Design App using a set of radio
>> buttons for each proofreading feature, and it appears on the screen
>> the way I had envisioned it.
>> I am not sure, however, how to deal with Radio buttons in an event
> handler.
>> I looked at the class 14 examples and they are very helpful, but I
>> need to find an example of an event handler which handles radio buttons.
>> Can you, or anyone else, help me with this?
>> Kevin Huber
>>
>>
>
>
