group syntax question

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Nov 22 01:59:07 EST 2005


Mark Wieder wrote:
> All-
> 
> Is there an easier way to get the label of the selected radio button
> in a group? I've got several occurrences where I've got something like
> the following ugly syntax. It seems like there should be something
> more intuitive, but I can't seem to come up with it.
> 
> switch the label of button (the hilitedButton of group "gpFilter") of group "gpFilter"
>   case "the label of radio button 1"
>     break
>   ...etc.
> end switch

One approach could be to assign each button a uAction property, which 
contains the name of a handler to be called when it's selected.

So rather than the above you could write something like:

do (the uAction of the hilitedbutton of grp "gpFilter")

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