Charles Hartman wrote:
I've got a complicated dialog (too complicated! but it will look
simple to the user I think), and I can't figure out how best to
design it to deal with the messaging system.
This card in the dialog has a column of half a dozen check-boxes, and
a column of a dozen or so radio buttons in a group. The user will
click a check box (probably all of them all in turn, but in any
order). Each time one is checked, I clear the hilite from the grouop
of radio buttons, and the user picks one of them. (There's a right
radio-button answer for each check-box; it's a tutorial.)
So I want is that when the user clicks a check-box, I wait until the
user picks one of the radio buttons (or maybe until the user picks
the correct one -- that's a detail I can decide later on UI grounds).
What's the best way to do this? The "wait" command? If so, I assume
I'd put it in the handler for each check-box, and I guess I'd have to
make the radio-button group emit a custom message when a button (or
the right button) is pressed. Is that right, or even close to right?
I think when you say "I wait until the user picks ..." what you mean is
"I don't respond to any further clicks on the check boxes until ...". If
so, then you don't need to do a "wait" command in a script - simply keep
track of what your status is (maybe in a global, maybe in a custom
property, maybe....lots of other ways).
Also, consider putting the check-boxes into a group, and having a single
handler for the group ....
-- group handler for all the check-boxes
on mouseUp
if gWaitingForRadioButtonChoice then
pass mouseUp
end if
-- no longer waiting - so we should respond to any clicks
put the target into lBoxClicked
switch lBoxClicked
case "Box1"
.... -- set up the radio button labels, etc.
put true into gWaitingForRadioButtonChoice
case "Box2"
....
end switch
endmouseUp
and then in the radio button script,
-- handler for radio buttons
on mouseUp
-- if this is an answer (or if correct ??)
put false into gWaitingForRadioButtonChoice
etc.
end mouseUp
(where gWaitingForRadioButtonChoice is, obviously, a global)
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