How to make an Unclickable Check Box

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Sannyasin Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:
> I am using a check box button to indicate to the
> user that he is or is  
> not connected to the internet. on openCard, the
> script pings for a file  
> on  a particular server... if it is downloaded and
> is not a 404, then  
> the check box hilite is set to true. Problem is, I
> don't want the user  
> to be able to click the button (thereby incorrectly
> toggling the check  
> mark) Of course, one can do this:
> 
> on mouseup
>    set the hilite of me to not the hilite of me
> end mouseup
> 
> to preserve the button state an a click attempt...
> but, is there no  
> property that can be set that would simply not let
> the user click the  
> button (other than disabled, which dims the button.)
> ??
> 
> Or perhaps there is a preferred strategy to
> accomplish this goal other  
> than use of a check button...
> 
> 

Hi Sannyasin,

Turn off the autoHilite of the checkbox, and leave the
script of the checkbox empty. Now it won't be hilited
unless you set its hilite from a script.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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