checking cancel button

[Jim Ault]

Try in the button script
on mouseDown

end mouseDown

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 5/14/06 10:24 PM, "Stephen Gorton" <sgorton at usa.net> wrote:

> hi
> i can't seem to figure out how to switch context to a button - to see if its
> been clicked and to -allow- the mouse to click it..
> 
> i have a handler that reads through a file and puts the status into a progress
> bar.
> I have stuck a button (cancel) on the card
> 
> question is how do i get the repeat statement in the handler to switch context
> to the btn?, and check if the button has been depressed.
> i have a mouse up statement in the btn but no matter what i do
> the card ignores the button completely until its finished the repeat
> 
> what i want to do is something like.....
> 
> repeat for each line L in testfile
> add 1 to num
> if cancel button depressed exit repeat
> set thumbpos of sb progbar to num
> end repeat
> 
> how do i check the state of the mouse button to see if its been depressed??
> 
> thanks
> stephen
> 
> 
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