Usng an image to "disable" a group

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Larry.  I tried your suggestion but it has the same problem as using
an image - buttons underneath the button are blocked but fields can still
be used.

I guess I'll have to stick with disabling each group when necessary.  Wish
there was a way to affect the background color of a disabled group but
don't think there is.


Pete
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:19 AM, <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> I'm not sure what you're exactly looking for in "looks" but I just now
> made a little test stack with colored buttons.
> You can adjust the blendlevel so that the group is as opaque or as
> transparent as you wish it to be.
> That's one idea.
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Haworth" <pete at lcsql.com>
> To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 10:20 AM
> Subject: Usng an image to "disable" a group
>
>
>  I have a stack with a series of groups on it.  I need to control the order
>> in which data is entered into the groups.  The obvious/easy way is to
>> enable/disable the groups as needed but I'm not happy with the way groups
>> look when they are disabled.
>>
>> I vaguely remember a thread about using images to do this since clicks
>> within the image don't make it through to the underlying controls.  When I
>> tried this, clicks on buttons that were under the image did not trigger
>> any
>> mouse events on them, as hoped, but field controls still get focus and I
>> can type into them.
>>
>> It seems like this isn't going to work so looking for other ways to
>> achieve
>> this without having to go through every control in the group and adjusting
>> their properties to disable them.  Alternatively, is there a way to
>> control
>> how a group looks when it is disabled?
>>
>> Pete
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