Hiliting Buttons

[Sarah]

I don't have a solution to your problem, but Chipp has a plugin that 
can compare the properties of 2 objects, so it might reveal what is 
going on. Here is the address: 
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Plugins.htm

Cheers,
Sarah

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 04:13  am, Rob Cozens wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Today's mystery is one I've been watching for some time, assuming 
> sooner or later an answer would come to me.  It hasn't; so I'm asking 
> for help:
>
> What hidden property of a button can cause it not to display its 
> hilite color &/or reverse its border colors when the handler it calls 
> instructs "set the hilite of the target to true"?
>
> I have a series of buttons that all appear (via the properties 
> palette) to be set up identically; yet some buttons don't display 
> their hilite color, and a few don't even reverse the border colors.
>
> Button specifics for all buttons --
>
> * Style = rectangle
> * Opaque = true
> * Ions : "regular", armed, & disabled
> * Can receive focus = true
> * Arm on mouseEnter = true
> * Background & hilite colors are set
> * 3D = true
> * Show border = true
> * Show focus border = true
>
> Button script format:
>
> on mouseEnter
>   buttonEnter [helpFieldName]
> end mouseEnter
>
> Handler that "fails":
>
> on buttonEnter helpField
>   global inFocus
>   if inFocus then exit buttonEnter
>   lock screen
>   set the hilite of the target to true -- COLORS DON'T CHANGE & 
> BORDERS DON'T REVERSE ON SOME BUTTONS
>   showHelpField helpField
>   unlock screen
> end buttonEnter
>
> local lastHelpId
>
> on hideHelpField
>   if lastHelpId is not empty then
>     hide field id lastHelpId
>     put empty into lastHelpId
>   else put empty into field "Help"
> end hideHelpField
>
> on showHelpField theField
>   hideHelpField
>   show field theField
>   put the id of field theField into lastHelpId
> end showHelpField
>
> A great future add-on to Revolution would be functionality to have the 
> Dev UI compare ALL properties of two controls of a similar type and 
> return a list of properties that are set differently.
>
> In the meantime, I hope someone can make it unnecessary for me to have 
> to compare all properties manually.     :{`)
>
> PS: The buttons were created by RunRev when it converted my HyperTalk 
> version of OenoLog to a Revolution stack, in case that makes a 
> difference.
> -- 
>
> Rob Cozens
> CCW, Serendipity Software Company
> http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm
>
> "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
> Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
>
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