Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

[SwissCharles]

Dear all,

I need to open a form with certain buttons greyed out.
I know how to do it in xDialog, but have found nothing in help, wiki and here to see how this could be done on a standard form.

Just to clarify:
I don't want to deactivate the buttons as they are still visible in full colours and I also don't want to hide the buttons.
I do want to see the button but not in color but in gray.

Only after some event, the buttons should turn colored again.

Do I miss the obvious here??

Thanks for each and every input!

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

Capture the design settings for each button in the oninit for the form and set the button to gray. The shared variables will be available when you want to color the buttons.

dim shared b1acc as C
dim shared b1col as C
dim shared b1style as C
b1acc = topparent:Button1.Fill.Accent_color 
b1col = topparent:Button1.Fill.Color
b1style = topparent:Button1.Fill.Style
topparent:Button1.Fill.Accent_color  = "Gray"
topparent:Button1.Fill.Color = "Gray"
topparent:Button1.Fill.Style = "Solid"

[Tim Kiebert]

Re: Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

You may also be able to dynamic properties introduced in v10

[Garry Flanigan]

Re: Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

You write a CDF and pass it "enable" or "disable" argument to switch the button's state.
I wrote one years ago that also has an enabled and disabled text color argument so you can have quite a lot of flexibility but unfortunately there is still no silver bullet.

[SwissCharles]

Re: Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

Many thanks for your input!

It only now occurrs to me (my native language is not English) that I probably omitted one vital fact:

The buttons I want to grey out do have an image. What I want is to retain the image, but instead of having it in color to paint this image in grey (much like it's possible in xDialog and probably also in a web app).

That's where I struggle.

Thanks for your thoughts!

[Ted Giles]

Re: Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

What about a Conditional Object?
You can stack the buttons and have colour or not, but you will have to use a photo editor or similar to create the monochrome effect.

Qu'en est-il un objet de sursis?
Vous pouvez empiler les boutons et ont la couleur ou pas, mais vous devrez utiliser un �diteur de photos ou similaire pour cr�er l'effet monochrome.

Wie w�rs mit einem Conditional-Objekt?
Sie k�nnen Stapel die Tasten und verf�gen �ber Farb-oder nicht, aber Sie m�ssen, um ein Foto-Editor oder �hnlich wie die monochrome Wirkung zu erstellen.

PS. Your English is near perfect! I thought you were a rich banker residing in Switzerland.

[SwissCharles]

Re: Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

Hi Ted,

Thanks for your input!

Your solution is what it sums up to: Having to use a conditional object and stacking two images on top of each other. This seems rather odd to me since Alpha does have this functionality in their xDialog 'environment'... Will place this request on the wish list (or shall I call it a bug )

Hey, not all Swiss people are rich or bankers But it's these gnomes of Zurich (what a bunch of greedy morons ) who brought this rather unfavorable image upon us!...

Thanks for translating your message into German and French, even though the French is completely lost on me (despite me growing up not more than 7 miles from the French speaking part of Switzerland...)

Have a nice Weekend!

[Ted Giles]

Re: Desktop: How to grey-out a button?

My most extravagant lunch was when I travelled to Geneva from London just to buy a Chase Manhattan guy a wild boar meal.
True. Ended up with a huge contract so it was worth it!