Saving the name of option button in a Save File

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

Sorry -- not combobox, option menu, the same thing applies, use the label to get the current choice.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Charles Szasz wrote:

> I am using the following script to save fields, checkbox and option buttons. Saving the content of fields works but I have been unsuccessful in saving the names of the option buttons, which are school names.
> 
> FUNCTION gatherData pCard
>   lock screen
>   lock messages
>   push card
>   go to card pCard
> 
>   put empty into tData
>   REPEAT WITH f = 1 to the number of fields
>      put field f into fData
>      replace ":" WITH "!" in fData
>      put the short name of field f & ":" & fData & cr after tData
>      --   END IF
>   END repeat
> 
>   REPEAT WITH b = 1 to the number of buttons
>      IF the style of button b = "checkbox" OR the style of button b = "option" 
>      THEN
>         put the short name of button b & ":" & the hilite of button b & cr after tData
>      END IF
>   END repeat
> 
>   pop card
>   return tData
> END gatherData
> 
> 
> Charles Szasz
> cszasz at mac.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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