Help please: can't get behavior script to work
Hi I have a number of buttons which are grouped together, and then this group is grouped with other similar groups to form a super-group. I have in excess of 300 buttons then that each represent a date. When I put the mouse over any one of the buttons I want to access an array and display the relevant information for that day in a separate field. I have a mouseWithin handler to access the data. When the mouseWithin handler is in the script of the actual button all works as it should. When I move the script to a separate button and set the behavior of my original button to it - nothing happens. The Inspector shows the behavior location correctly. There are no other mouseWithin handlers in the message path. This is the line I used in the message box to set the behavior of the first of my buttons. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar I even tried referencing all the groups but still nothing happened. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of grp calendargrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar This is the corresponding behavior entry from the Inspector button id 1647 of stack timeTable3 which resolves to the button with my mousewithin script. I can strip out the core of the script into a separate handler and place it in the card script but I'd rather not replicate the remaining code 300+ times (even though it is only a dozen lines) if I can get behaviors to work. I'm using LiveCode 4.5 Bld 1080 Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work
Bonjour Ian, I just tried the following - created: - a stack - a group grButton of 3 buttons: Button1, Button2, Button3 - another group grBtn of 3 buttons: Btn1, Btn2, Btn3 - grouped the two groups in a super group grGlobal - a button BtnBehavior - a field fldTarget - put the following handler in the script of BtnBehavior: on mouseWithin put the short name of the target into fld fldTarget end mouseWithin Finally i set the behavior of grp grGlobal to the long id of btn btnBehavior of this card. Hoping that replicate your problem, Well: Does not work with mouseWithin But that works with other messages: with mouseUp, with mouseDown, with mouseMove, with mouseEnter Seems that the explanation is the last line of the doc on mouseWithin in the Dictionary: Note: If there is no mouseWithinhandler in the target object'sscript, no mouseWithinmessage is sent, even if there is a mouseWithinhandler in an object that's further along the message path. HTH Best regards from Grenoble André Le 23 oct. 10 à 13:19, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi I have a number of buttons which are grouped together, and then this group is grouped with other similar groups to form a super-group. I have in excess of 300 buttons then that each represent a date. When I put the mouse over any one of the buttons I want to access an array and display the relevant information for that day in a separate field. I have a mouseWithin handler to access the data. When the mouseWithin handler is in the script of the actual button all works as it should. When I move the script to a separate button and set the behavior of my original button to it - nothing happens. The Inspector shows the behavior location correctly. There are no other mouseWithin handlers in the message path. This is the line I used in the message box to set the behavior of the first of my buttons. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar I even tried referencing all the groups but still nothing happened. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of grp calendargrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar This is the corresponding behavior entry from the Inspector button id 1647 of stack timeTable3 which resolves to the button with my mousewithin script. I can strip out the core of the script into a separate handler and place it in the card script but I'd rather not replicate the remaining code 300+ times (even though it is only a dozen lines) if I can get behaviors to work. I'm using LiveCode 4.5 Bld 1080 Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution --- Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work
Hi Andre It does help when you read the manual :) I did read it but I missed the significance of the last line! Anyway problem is solved all I need do is pass the mouseWithin message in each button - not a great price to pay. And thank you for your very quick reply. On 23 October 2010 15:01, André Bisseret andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Bonjour Ian, I just tried the following - created: - a stack - a group grButton of 3 buttons: Button1, Button2, Button3 - another group grBtn of 3 buttons: Btn1, Btn2, Btn3 - grouped the two groups in a super group grGlobal - a button BtnBehavior - a field fldTarget - put the following handler in the script of BtnBehavior: on mouseWithin put the short name of the target into fld fldTarget end mouseWithin Finally i set the behavior of grp grGlobal to the long id of btn btnBehavior of this card. Hoping that replicate your problem, Well: Does not work with mouseWithin But that works with other messages: with mouseUp, with mouseDown, with mouseMove, with mouseEnter Seems that the explanation is the last line of the doc on mouseWithin in the Dictionary: Note: If there is no mouseWithinhandler in the target object'sscript, no mouseWithinmessage is sent, even if there is a mouseWithinhandler in an object that's further along the message path. HTH Best regards from Grenoble André Le 23 oct. 10 à 13:19, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi I have a number of buttons which are grouped together, and then this group is grouped with other similar groups to form a super-group. I have in excess of 300 buttons then that each represent a date. When I put the mouse over any one of the buttons I want to access an array and display the relevant information for that day in a separate field. I have a mouseWithin handler to access the data. When the mouseWithin handler is in the script of the actual button all works as it should. When I move the script to a separate button and set the behavior of my original button to it - nothing happens. The Inspector shows the behavior location correctly. There are no other mouseWithin handlers in the message path. This is the line I used in the message box to set the behavior of the first of my buttons. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar I even tried referencing all the groups but still nothing happened. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of grp calendargrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar This is the corresponding behavior entry from the Inspector button id 1647 of stack timeTable3 which resolves to the button with my mousewithin script. I can strip out the core of the script into a separate handler and place it in the card script but I'd rather not replicate the remaining code 300+ times (even though it is only a dozen lines) if I can get behaviors to work. I'm using LiveCode 4.5 Bld 1080 Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution --- Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work
Le 23 oct. 10 à 16:29, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi Andre It does help when you read the manual :) I did read it but I missed the significance of the last line! Anyway problem is solved all I need do is pass the mouseWithin message in each button - not a great price to pay. Ian, Just curious, why do you prefer mouseWithin to mouseEnter or mouseMove? (with one of these, you should not have to pay any price ;-)), should you? André And thank you for your very quick reply. On 23 October 2010 15:01, André Bisseret andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Bonjour Ian, I just tried the following - created: - a stack - a group grButton of 3 buttons: Button1, Button2, Button3 - another group grBtn of 3 buttons: Btn1, Btn2, Btn3 - grouped the two groups in a super group grGlobal - a button BtnBehavior - a field fldTarget - put the following handler in the script of BtnBehavior: on mouseWithin put the short name of the target into fld fldTarget end mouseWithin Finally i set the behavior of grp grGlobal to the long id of btn btnBehavior of this card. Hoping that replicate your problem, Well: Does not work with mouseWithin But that works with other messages: with mouseUp, with mouseDown, with mouseMove, with mouseEnter Seems that the explanation is the last line of the doc on mouseWithin in the Dictionary: Note: If there is no mouseWithinhandler in the target object'sscript, no mouseWithinmessage is sent, even if there is a mouseWithinhandler in an object that's further along the message path. HTH Best regards from Grenoble André Le 23 oct. 10 à 13:19, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi I have a number of buttons which are grouped together, and then this group is grouped with other similar groups to form a super-group. I have in excess of 300 buttons then that each represent a date. When I put the mouse over any one of the buttons I want to access an array and display the relevant information for that day in a separate field. I have a mouseWithin handler to access the data. When the mouseWithin handler is in the script of the actual button all works as it should. When I move the script to a separate button and set the behavior of my original button to it - nothing happens. The Inspector shows the behavior location correctly. There are no other mouseWithin handlers in the message path. This is the line I used in the message box to set the behavior of the first of my buttons. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar I even tried referencing all the groups but still nothing happened. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of grp calendargrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar This is the corresponding behavior entry from the Inspector button id 1647 of stack timeTable3 which resolves to the button with my mousewithin script. I can strip out the core of the script into a separate handler and place it in the card script but I'd rather not replicate the remaining code 300+ times (even though it is only a dozen lines) if I can get behaviors to work. I'm using LiveCode 4.5 Bld 1080 Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution --- Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti- virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution --- Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work
On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:41 AM, André Bisseret wrote: Le 23 oct. 10 à 16:29, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi Andre It does help when you read the manual :) I did read it but I missed the significance of the last line! Anyway problem is solved all I need do is pass the mouseWithin message in each button - not a great price to pay. Ian, Just curious, why do you prefer mouseWithin to mouseEnter or mouseMove? (with one of these, you should not have to pay any price ;-)), should you? I always use mousemove for this kind of thing, for that exact reason -- no mousemove is sent unless the object itself has a mousemove handler, which is cumbersome if you want some generic behavior when the mouse is within any button, for instance. André And thank you for your very quick reply. On 23 October 2010 15:01, André Bisseret andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Bonjour Ian, I just tried the following - created: - a stack - a group grButton of 3 buttons: Button1, Button2, Button3 - another group grBtn of 3 buttons: Btn1, Btn2, Btn3 - grouped the two groups in a super group grGlobal - a button BtnBehavior - a field fldTarget - put the following handler in the script of BtnBehavior: on mouseWithin put the short name of the target into fld fldTarget end mouseWithin Finally i set the behavior of grp grGlobal to the long id of btn btnBehavior of this card. Hoping that replicate your problem, Well: Does not work with mouseWithin But that works with other messages: with mouseUp, with mouseDown, with mouseMove, with mouseEnter Seems that the explanation is the last line of the doc on mouseWithin in the Dictionary: Note: If there is no mouseWithinhandler in the target object'sscript, no mouseWithinmessage is sent, even if there is a mouseWithinhandler in an object that's further along the message path. HTH Best regards from Grenoble André Le 23 oct. 10 à 13:19, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi I have a number of buttons which are grouped together, and then this group is grouped with other similar groups to form a super-group. I have in excess of 300 buttons then that each represent a date. When I put the mouse over any one of the buttons I want to access an array and display the relevant information for that day in a separate field. I have a mouseWithin handler to access the data. When the mouseWithin handler is in the script of the actual button all works as it should. When I move the script to a separate button and set the behavior of my original button to it - nothing happens. The Inspector shows the behavior location correctly. There are no other mouseWithin handlers in the message path. This is the line I used in the message box to set the behavior of the first of my buttons. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar I even tried referencing all the groups but still nothing happened. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of grp calendargrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar This is the corresponding behavior entry from the Inspector button id 1647 of stack timeTable3 which resolves to the button with my mousewithin script. I can strip out the core of the script into a separate handler and place it in the card script but I'd rather not replicate the remaining code 300+ times (even though it is only a dozen lines) if I can get behaviors to work. I'm using LiveCode 4.5 Bld 1080 Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work
Do you know I never really thought about using either mouseenter or mousemove :) As I was thinking about various ways to solve my problem it just seemed 'natural' to do something when the mouse was within the button area and I fixed on that. I will alter my code to use mouseEnter because I like the simplicity of the behavior not requiring any code in the buttons but I have learned a useful tip about mouseWithin and mouseMove. Thanks again. On 23 October 2010 19:00, Peter Brigham MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:41 AM, André Bisseret wrote: Le 23 oct. 10 à 16:29, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi Andre It does help when you read the manual :) I did read it but I missed the significance of the last line! Anyway problem is solved all I need do is pass the mouseWithin message in each button - not a great price to pay. Ian, Just curious, why do you prefer mouseWithin to mouseEnter or mouseMove? (with one of these, you should not have to pay any price ;-)), should you? I always use mousemove for this kind of thing, for that exact reason -- no mousemove is sent unless the object itself has a mousemove handler, which is cumbersome if you want some generic behavior when the mouse is within any button, for instance. André And thank you for your very quick reply. On 23 October 2010 15:01, André Bisseret andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Bonjour Ian, I just tried the following - created: - a stack - a group grButton of 3 buttons: Button1, Button2, Button3 - another group grBtn of 3 buttons: Btn1, Btn2, Btn3 - grouped the two groups in a super group grGlobal - a button BtnBehavior - a field fldTarget - put the following handler in the script of BtnBehavior: on mouseWithin put the short name of the target into fld fldTarget end mouseWithin Finally i set the behavior of grp grGlobal to the long id of btn btnBehavior of this card. Hoping that replicate your problem, Well: Does not work with mouseWithin But that works with other messages: with mouseUp, with mouseDown, with mouseMove, with mouseEnter Seems that the explanation is the last line of the doc on mouseWithin in the Dictionary: Note: If there is no mouseWithinhandler in the target object'sscript, no mouseWithinmessage is sent, even if there is a mouseWithinhandler in an object that's further along the message path. HTH Best regards from Grenoble André Le 23 oct. 10 à 13:19, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi I have a number of buttons which are grouped together, and then this group is grouped with other similar groups to form a super-group. I have in excess of 300 buttons then that each represent a date. When I put the mouse over any one of the buttons I want to access an array and display the relevant information for that day in a separate field. I have a mouseWithin handler to access the data. When the mouseWithin handler is in the script of the actual button all works as it should. When I move the script to a separate button and set the behavior of my original button to it - nothing happens. The Inspector shows the behavior location correctly. There are no other mouseWithin handlers in the message path. This is the line I used in the message box to set the behavior of the first of my buttons. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar I even tried referencing all the groups but still nothing happened. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of grp calendargrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar This is the corresponding behavior entry from the Inspector button id 1647 of stack timeTable3 which resolves to the button with my mousewithin script. I can strip out the core of the script into a separate handler and place it in the card script but I'd rather not replicate the remaining code 300+ times (even though it is only a dozen lines) if I can get behaviors to work. I'm using LiveCode 4.5 Bld 1080 Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig http://home.comcast.net/%7Epmbrig ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work
Beware of mouseenter. In my experience, when the mouse is moving fast mouseenter sometimes doesn't get sent (this ought to be labeled as a bug). Mousemove is more reliable, though it will get called repeatedly. Unless you are doing something very complex on mousemove, however, it won't slow anything down. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Oct 23, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Ian McKnight wrote: Do you know I never really thought about using either mouseenter or mousemove :) As I was thinking about various ways to solve my problem it just seemed 'natural' to do something when the mouse was within the button area and I fixed on that. I will alter my code to use mouseEnter because I like the simplicity of the behavior not requiring any code in the buttons but I have learned a useful tip about mouseWithin and mouseMove. Thanks again. On 23 October 2010 19:00, Peter Brigham MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:41 AM, André Bisseret wrote: Le 23 oct. 10 à 16:29, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi Andre It does help when you read the manual :) I did read it but I missed the significance of the last line! Anyway problem is solved all I need do is pass the mouseWithin message in each button - not a great price to pay. Ian, Just curious, why do you prefer mouseWithin to mouseEnter or mouseMove? (with one of these, you should not have to pay any price ;-)), should you? I always use mousemove for this kind of thing, for that exact reason -- no mousemove is sent unless the object itself has a mousemove handler, which is cumbersome if you want some generic behavior when the mouse is within any button, for instance. André And thank you for your very quick reply. On 23 October 2010 15:01, André Bisseret andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Bonjour Ian, I just tried the following - created: - a stack - a group grButton of 3 buttons: Button1, Button2, Button3 - another group grBtn of 3 buttons: Btn1, Btn2, Btn3 - grouped the two groups in a super group grGlobal - a button BtnBehavior - a field fldTarget - put the following handler in the script of BtnBehavior: on mouseWithin put the short name of the target into fld fldTarget end mouseWithin Finally i set the behavior of grp grGlobal to the long id of btn btnBehavior of this card. Hoping that replicate your problem, Well: Does not work with mouseWithin But that works with other messages: with mouseUp, with mouseDown, with mouseMove, with mouseEnter Seems that the explanation is the last line of the doc on mouseWithin in the Dictionary: Note: If there is no mouseWithinhandler in the target object'sscript, no mouseWithinmessage is sent, even if there is a mouseWithinhandler in an object that's further along the message path. HTH Best regards from Grenoble André Le 23 oct. 10 à 13:19, Ian McKnight a écrit : Hi I have a number of buttons which are grouped together, and then this group is grouped with other similar groups to form a super-group. I have in excess of 300 buttons then that each represent a date. When I put the mouse over any one of the buttons I want to access an array and display the relevant information for that day in a separate field. I have a mouseWithin handler to access the data. When the mouseWithin handler is in the script of the actual button all works as it should. When I move the script to a separate button and set the behavior of my original button to it - nothing happens. The Inspector shows the behavior location correctly. There are no other mouseWithin handlers in the message path. This is the line I used in the message box to set the behavior of the first of my buttons. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar I even tried referencing all the groups but still nothing happened. set the behavior of btn checkBx 0 of grp sepGrp of grp calendargrp of cd calendar to the long id of btn behave of cd calendar This is the corresponding behavior entry from the Inspector button id 1647 of stack timeTable3 which resolves to the button with my mousewithin script. I can strip out the core of the script into a separate handler and place it in the card script but I'd rather not replicate the remaining code 300+ times (even though it is only a dozen lines) if I can get behaviors to work. I'm using LiveCode 4.5 Bld 1080 Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com === -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig http://home.comcast.net/%7Epmbrig ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution --
