Re: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
To ask the obvious first: we assume you need, in many cases, two
lines worth of label for the check box buttons but RunRev does not allow
multi-line labels for check buttons.
There are many ways to tackle this but if it were me I would add a
custom property to each of the buttons with the full text that I wanted
to associate with that button, name it something like uMyLabel
Then your code could be:
on mouseUp
put the number of buttons of me into nbr
repeat with n = 1 to nbr
if (the hilite of button n of me then)
put (the uMyLabel of button n of me)& ", " after theList
end if
end repeat
delete char -2 to -1 of theList
put theList into field "list"
end mouseUp
but then you have the issue of maintenance. What if you want to change the text
of the button label? you have to fix the label and the custom property.
Another solution could be to make your UI consistent.. and not use custom
props. You would programatically generate a label field that holds two lines
and place that next to each check box button and name it with a hook to the
button, then turn off the name and label of all the buttons. ( I don't know if
your GUI has space for single line label button to occupy the same vertical
space as 2 liners)
First, go ahead and enter the full label text property of all your buttons, don't worry
about the space requirement on the GUI level for now. You just want all your data for
the same type of object, all in the same "targetable" location.
Next make a label field with all the properties you want them all to have. of
course it will be set to wrap and align right, nice background color, text
color etc...whatever you want
then have a "tools" button on your UI that you can hide later.
on mouseUp
set the properties of templateField to the properties of fld "MyButtonLabel"
repeat with x = 1 to the number of buttons of this card
put ("Label_"& the short name of button x) into tLabelName
create field tLabelName
set the topright of fld tLabelName to (item 1 of (the topleft of button
x)-4,item 2 of the topleft of button x)
# you can move them later or work out the math here to place them
correctly
put the label of button x into fld tLabelName
# turn off the label on the button itself
set the showname of btn x to false
# Let's now let's make the check boxes small so they are only as wide as
the actual check box itself
# but this will cause the position to change so we need to get the left
first.
put the left of btn x into tLeft
set the width of btn x to 20
set the left of btn x to tLeft # restore position
end Repeat
reset templateField
end mouseUp
Then you get your list like this:
on mouseUp
put the number of buttons of me into nbr
repeat with n = 1 to nbr
if (the hilite of button n of me then)
put (the Label of button n of me)& ", " after theList
end if
end repeat
delete char -2 to -1 of theList
put theList into field "list"
end mouseUp
For maintenance you could have a handler in your tools button to update button
labels when you change/edit the GUI..
on mouseUp
put the number of buttons of me into nbr
repeat with n = 1 to nbr
set the label of button n of me to fld ("Label_"& the short name of button
x)
end repeat
end mouseUp
many ways to tackle it.
Next, since you need to see this in the UI I would programattically
generate a small transparent field over each of the buttons just to the
right of the check box and set the check box to for consistency
On 9/13/10 3:25 PM, charles61 wrote:
I have a series of cards that have checkboxes. Some of the checkboxes have
labels fields under them because the label of the checkbox will not hold the
content of the information displayed. Here is my question: I want to modify
the following group script for checkboxes to display the content of the
checkboxes plus the label fields for some of the checkboxes. I have tried
grouping the checkboxes that have an additional label fields but that does
not work.
What changes would I need to make this work both checkboxes that have label
fields and those that do not have label fields?
on mouseUp
put the number of buttons of me into nbr
repeat with n = 1 to nbr
put the short name of button n of me into tName
if not the hilite of button n of me then next repeat
put tName& ", " after theList
-- put tName& cr after theList
end repeat
delete char -2 to -1 of theList
put theList into field "list"
end mouseUp
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Re: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
On 9/13/10 8:25 PM, charles61 wrote: I have a series of cards that have checkboxes. Some of the checkboxes have labels fields under them because the label of the checkbox will not hold the content of the information displayed. You can add a two-line label if you do it by script: set the label of btn 1 to "line one" &cr& "line 2" Would that help? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
Cool! I didn't know you could do that. Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com office 1-800-360-734-4701 -- On Sep 13, 2010, at 10:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 9/13/10 8:25 PM, charles61 wrote: >> >> I have a series of cards that have checkboxes. Some of the checkboxes have >> labels fields under them because the label of the checkbox will not hold the >> content of the information displayed. > > You can add a two-line label if you do it by script: > > set the label of btn 1 to "line one" &cr& "line 2" > > Would that help? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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 ___ 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: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! Although Jacquline's suggestion may be the easiest to implement, I am going to try each suggestion to see which works best for me. Thanks everybody! -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Grouping-checkboxes-with-label-fields-tp2538305p2539772.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
On 9/13/10 7:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You can add a two-line label if you do it by script: set the label of btn 1 to "line one" &cr& "line 2" Would that help? I'm sure it would...I could have sworn I tried that and it did not work but today it does. Again, we have the old problem of not being able to easily tweak the look and feel.. the check box is aligned horizontally on center between the two lines. There is no way that I have found to change the label align of the 2 line label in relation to the check box...is there a way? ___ 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: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
On 9/14/10 11:06 PM, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: On 9/13/10 7:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You can add a two-line label if you do it by script: set the label of btn 1 to "line one" &cr& "line 2" Would that help? I'm sure it would...I could have sworn I tried that and it did not work but today it does. Again, we have the old problem of not being able to easily tweak the look and feel.. the check box is aligned horizontally on center between the two lines. There is no way that I have found to change the label align of the 2 line label in relation to the check box...is there a way? No, not that I know of. I was going to mention that using this trick pretty much breaks the HIG on every platform. :( If you want it to look right you have to go back to the field and button combo -- which might be why you forgot about this trick in the first place, because it looks weird. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
--- On Tue, 9/14/10, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: > On 9/13/10 7:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > You can add a two-line label if you do it by script: > > > > set the label of btn 1 to "line one" > &cr& "line 2" > > > > Would that help? > > I'm sure it would...I could have sworn I tried that and it > did not work but today it does. Again, we have the old > problem of not being able to easily tweak the look and > feel.. the check box is aligned horizontally on center > between the two lines. > > There is no way that I have found to change the label align > of the 2 line label in relation to the check box...is there > a way? > The checkbox is always painted near the vertical middle of the button. You can always tweak the margins property o the button to move down the label so the first line matches the checkbox, but then you end up with a large button with loads of whitespace above that the user can still click on. But then you can group the button to cut off the extraneous part at the top: group the button, set the group margins to 0, set its locklocation to true and then resize it to the actual top. Works great here. Jan Schenkel = Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution www.quartam.com = "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) ___ 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: Grouping checkboxes with label fields
On 9/15/10 12:18 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: The checkbox is always painted near the vertical middle of the button. You can always tweak the margins property o the button to move down the label so the first line matches the checkbox, but then you end up with a large button with loads of whitespace above that the user can still click on. But then you can group the button to cut off the extraneous part at the top: group the button, set the group margins to 0, set its locklocation to true and then resize it to the actual top. Works great here. Oohh... -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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
