How do I remotely change the selectedText of a button and then save it?

William de Smet wdesmet at wanadoo.nl
Sat Apr 1 04:41:52 EST 2006


Hi Jan,

Thanks, now it works and again I learned something.
Both Klaus and Jan thanks for the support (again!).

greetings from a windy Holland,
groeten uit een winderig Nederland,

William de Smet

2006/4/1, Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com>:
> --- William de Smet <wdesmet at wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> > Thanks Klaus,
> >
> > This does what I want but then I lose al the
> > available options in the
> > 'options' btn.
> > I am making an educational stack with levels. In the
> > teacher part the
> > teacher can choose the right startinglevel (1.1 to
> > 1.5). After making
> > the exercise the script needs to update the level
> > automatically so
> > when the student starts working the next day he
> > starts with the next
> > level. The teacher must also be able to change the
> > level back again
> > (and with the script so far I've lost al the
> > available levels). The
> > teacher part is a different stack because it needs
> > to save data.
> >
> > Maybe I need to work with checkboxes but that takes
> > more space in the
> > GUI than an option button? Then you set the hilite
> > to true or false
> > and check this with scripting.
> >
> > Anyone else can help me with the option button?
> >
> > William de Smet
> >
>
> Hi William,
>
> Have you tried to use the 'menuHistory' property to
> change the selected option? It takes the line number
> of the option to select.
> --
>   set the menuHistory of btn "Level" to 4
> --
> This will also send the 'menuPick' message to the
> option button, which might come in handy - and it
> that's the opposite of what you want, just use a pair
> of 'lock messages' and 'unlock messages' around it.
>
> Hope this helped,
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
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