final, final word on weird checkbox behavior

[Timothy Miller]

I went around and around on this, here and on the old HC list. I 
outsmarted myself several times, in several ways. A few nice people 
tried to assist. If I were better at this, it would not have been a 
big deal.

After much trial and error, mostly error, the bottom line is...

When another script sends a mouseup to a radio button or checkbox in 
HC, the script works in every way, except the hilite of the button is 
not affected. To get the hilite to change, you have to set hilite to 
true or false in the script of each button, or use "click at the loc 
of..." instead of "send mouseup to..."

(At least this is true on my machines, on my stacks. I suppose YMMV.)

All the other nonsense I posted on this topic was just me outsmarting myself.

I watched the message watcher. Radio buttons and checkboxes don't 
seem to send a message regarding setting hilite. I guess it's 
something native to that button type, internal and mysterious.

This might be of some interest to someone. Maybe not... I don't know 
if Rev buttons have the same idiosyncrasy. I doubt it, but I'll know 
what to look for now.

Should I post this on the HC list, too, or is everybody already 
cross-subscribed? Would anyone care? Maybe everyone already knew 
this...

Cheers,


Tim Miller