Svg Icon Tool

Fri Aug 26 11:54:27 EDT 2022

What if the widget had a property to disable the auto hilite on click and when the hiliteChanged message arrives you can set(or not) the hilite as appropriate via setting a widget property? A pre-message would be cleaner but this is not horrible.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Brian Milby via use-livecode
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 10:13 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Brian Milby
Subject: Re: Svg Icon Tool

Ok, then we need a full spec on how this would work.  It is not just the addition of a message.

To get what you are desiring, it would be most consistent to just add the mouse messages and the autoHilite property.

I would still want the silent option since that works most in the grain of the current functionality.

In your use case, you wouldn’t even use the hiliteChanged message.  You would just act based on the mouseUp after your checks.

>From a UI perspective, I think it makes more sense for the object to highlight on the touch and then revert on the mouseUp if not permitted.

> On Aug 26, 2022, at 9:28 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> you would have a property for autohilite, and if that is false, the 
> developer would be responsible for setting the hilite. that's the way 
> it's implemented with other controls.
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 9:23 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode < 
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The silent update would allow that to happen in the hilitechanged handler.
>> 
>> I don’t know how you would implement a pre… message.  How would the 
>> widget know whether to proceed or not?  The two messages would fire 
>> almost simultaneously.  There also isn’t any way to tell the widget 
>> to cancel the highlight action, which would be needed.
>> 
>> A mouseDown message may work but would still need a way to cancel the 
>> highlight.  I think the silent change is the most seamless way to 
>> accomplish this task.
>> 
>> In general I think that normal mouse messages should be passed from 
>> widgets - even if they add specialized functionality with additional 
>> messages.  I don’t think they would solve this issue on their own though.
>> 
>> (I also did some work in this widget to add the nothing and multiple
>> selections)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 26, 2022, at 9:03 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> i don't think so. i want to be able to be able to intercept the 
>>> touch/click, and decide what to do. sometimes i want to ignore it.
>>> sometimes i want to throw up an error and not switch. sometimes i 
>>> want to do something else, first.
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:48 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < 
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I think what we probably need is simply:
>>>> 
>>>> set the hilitedItemSilently of widget 1 to 1 Or set the 
>>>> hilitedItemWithoutMessage of widget 1 to 1
>>>> 
>>>> This would allow more elegant solutions to many of the raised issues.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Brian
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 25, 2022, at 2:48 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> the two things that are glaring, imho are
>>>>> * [preHiliteChanged](
>> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23207)
>>>> -
>>>>> someone taps on a selection. i do a check, throw up a "nope", and
>> nothing
>>>>> changes. this one is preventing me from moving off of the 
>>>>> tmControls
>>>> navbar.
>>>>> * autowidth to the card width.
>>>>> but there are several others, as well
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> https://quality.livecode.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=navigation%20bar
>> &list_id=105904
>>>>> listen, i get it. i need to re-learn lcb and actually use it.
>>>>> but i also have force powers, so i know that someone is going to 
>>>>> do
>> these
>>>>> things, before i do, and then i won't have to.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:39 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode < 
>>>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mike,
>>>>>> I have used my own version of the navbar widget for years. I 
>>>>>> added an option to enlarge/vertically justify the icon if there 
>>>>>> is no label and eliminated the "new item" thingy. I think the 
>>>>>> stock widget already
>> lets
>>>> you
>>>>>> select the zero option. I added that back before the stock widget 
>>>>>> let
>>>> you
>>>>>> do it. What changes/enhancements are you looking for?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I also have LCS routines to store the navbar options as a custom
>>>> property
>>>>>> array. I have handlers to add/delete/change option text and icons 
>>>>>> via script for a contextual UI. They are not documented or 
>>>>>> polished but if there is any interest I will look into it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ralph DiMola
>>>>>> IT Director
>>>>>> Evergreen Information Services
>>>>>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>>>>>> 
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