design of radio-button choice

[Judy Perry]

Charles,

Just a guess, but did you look at the Target?

That way you could put a mouseUp handler in the group and use either and
if-then or a menuPick conditional structure in conjunction with the
Target, e.g.,

pseudocode:

on mouseUp -- at the group level
  if the Target is "whatever"
  ...
end mouseUp

Will this do?  I'll admit to not having followed this thread closely :(

Judy


On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Charles Hartman wrote:

> Thanks -- and to Alex, too -- I hadn't thought of grouping the check-
> boxes. I'm first going to try a simpler & more permissive approach
> and see how the user-experience feels, but if that's not satisfactory
> I'll do the second group.
>
> But either way, there's something I still don't quite understand
> about the messaging.
>
> I know how to find out which of a group of radio buttons has been
> pressed -- but I'm not quite clear how to know when one (any) has
> been pressed, that is, when to check the result. Do I just use a
> mouseUp handler attached to the group (of radio buttons)? That looks
> promising and I'll try it. However:
>
> If the check-boxes are also in a group, presumably I should manage
> them from a script attached to their group, too. In a mouseUp
> handler? But their "radioBehavior" will be false (more than one can
> be hilited, no auto-de-hiliting), so hilitedButton won't work. How do
> I tell, in that mouseUp handler, which one was pressed?
>
> Is there a tutorial on this stuff? I haven't seen one but I may be
> looking in the wrong place. I know it's pretty basic, but I'm
> confused. Thanks again for the patience & advice.