stumped: set script of buttons at runtime

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Thu Jun 16 11:53:41 EDT 2005


Hi Emilio,

> Hi All,
> I've been battling this problem for a few days and have no idea  
> where to look next.  Originally I thought it had to do with global  
> variable issues between stacks.  However, after MUCH hair-pulling  
> it appears the problem has to do with setting the script property  
> of buttons dynamically ...or so I think...Keep in mind the  
> following code works ...
> ...
> and hence none of them work.  If I set the visibility of the  
> original hidden button to true, it works fine.  So for some reason,  
> setting the script of a button at runtime does not seem possible.   
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here??

you are doing nothing wrong actually!
You just have been hit by the "Scriptlimits", sorry :-/

See the "Note" in the docs for "script".

> Completely frustarted,
> Emilio

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de



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