help the newb-rube

[Phil Davis]

Hi Ben,

Here's one way that works:


1) Make sure all the buttons have their autoHilite set to false. If this 
isn't the case, the following won't work.


2) Put this in your stack script or the script of each card (but watch 
for line wraps here):

on mouseDown
   -- avoid acting on messages from other than the answer groups
   if word 1 of the target <> "button" then pass mouseDown
   if word 1 of the owner of the target <> "group" then pass mouseDown

   -- set the answer button of a group
   set the hilitedButtonID of the owner of the target \
       to the ID of the target
end mouseDown


3) To reset all groups at 'openCard' time, do this:

on openCard
   put the groupIDs of this cd into tGroupList
   repeat for each line tThisGroup in tGroupList
     set the hilitedButtonName of grp ID tThisGroup to empty
   end repeat
end openCard

Then it should all work!

Phil Davis


Ben Bock wrote:
> 
> 1)  I have 30 groups or radio buttons per page, with several pages.
> I'd like them to reset to zero on cardOpen.  Thanks to helpful
> feedback from here, I'm trying to avoid "hard-coding" as much, but
> I'm flubbing the script.
> 
> on openCard
> 
> put the number of grps into clearGroups
> 
> repeat with x = 1 to clearGroups
> 
> put the groupIDs of grp x into tList
> 
> repeat for each line tGroup in tList
> 
> set the hilitedButton of grp id tGroup of grp x \\ to zero
> 
> end openCard
> 
> 2)  I tried to make some round buttons behave like radio buttons.
> The "radio button dot" is a bit of a formatting hassle.  I looked up
> solutions in archives, but they don't seem to work for me, I'm
> running 2.6.1 on Windows.  Has anyone actually successfully made
> regular buttons behave like radio buttons?
> 
> Indebted for any help,
> 
> Ben