armed icons?

[Derek Bump]

Lars Brehmer wrote:
> Well, I am going a bit crazy here (again)!!   For certain buttons I  am 
> trying to get an "armedIcon" to be displayed when the mouse enters  the 
> button.  Seems pretty standard, right? Is there some kind of  trick 
> here? Giving the button an icon, a hilite icon and an armed  icon in the 
> property inspector doesn't work (nothing happens when the  mouse 
> enters). Setting the icon, hilite and armed icon with the  messagebox 
> doesn't work (nothing happens when the mouse enters).   Setting the 
> autoArm property of the button to true in combination  with the afore 
> mentioned doesn't work. In fact I've tried every  combination of all of 
> these things and everything I could find in the  docs, but I just can't 
> get a button to switch icons  when the mouse  enters and switch back 
> when it leaves. It seems to me that this  shouldn't be that hard, I 
> would think it works just like a rollover.  I've even tied scripting 
> this (on mouseEnter set the icon to...., on  mouseLeave set the icon 
> to..., etc) but nada. What the heck am i  donig wrog here?

Well, the following script should work...

    on mouseEnter
       set the icon of me to "1002"
    end mouseEnter

    on mouseLeave
       set the icon of me to "1001"
    end mouseLeave


Derek Bump
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