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    Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

    I have placed a button in a column of an embedded browse using conditional formating. The button has an bitmap followed by text. The bitmap and text show up properly on the records they are supposed to but as only the image and text, not a raised button. When the cursor is flown over the button appears. I would like to have the button displayed full time for the conditional field not just when flown over, any ideas?
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    Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

    Sample?

    The issue is, which do you think more likely? Someone attempts to duplicate what you say you have done and make it work, or someone tinkers with a sample of what you say doesn't work the way you want?
    Last edited by Stan Mathews; 01-08-2014, 10:18 PM.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

      Supposed to look something like this? (I captured the setup that generated this conditional button with the chrome logo I just added)
      Even though the button works great and it is raised (hard to see) , doesn't the preview (circled in red) look nice?
      At least one of the previews works while building the button. (I reported the bug ages ago.) Not too long ago, none of these preview screens worked (so you had to build the button "blindly" as it only displayed properly once embedded in the form.

      I did a lot of experimenting with conditional buttons with code so that data could be entered and validated before it ends up in the browse field.
      (using "invisible by default" buttons that look just like the underlying fields in the browse)

      Clicking on them using a "ui_get" (dialog style/modal): vc_Value=ui_get_number("QUANTITY:","Sold",str(this.quantity.value),"") prompts for a data entry and captures the text into vc_Value.

      FYI: These button settings work using the Alpha Sports v.10.5 theme. (It could be the them you've applied, or possibly something to do with the flyover events etc.) I don't mess with themes too much. But as I recall, certain "effects" (like flyover) and certain theme combinations can (used to) wreak havoc.

      PS: The Enable Expression & Expression fields (on all browse buttons, conditional or otherwise) only work in preview. (the last two settings) Thes settings have not been "respected" on a live form for quite some time. ~ The workaround is the test for the value in the buttons event event, and issue an "END" accordingly. The button may "activate", but it won't do anything. (You can always add a ui_beep() and/or keep the button conditionally hidden (as shown below.) Another interesting thing you can do with conditional hidden buttons is conditionally control the color of the text. (For instance: Fields with a 0 value show up red, and have parenthesis around them when they are negative.) In the screen capture below, all the quantity fields are active buttons. But only when the fields quantity = 2 do they look like buttons. (proof of concept)

      Note: The second image is of the conditional button default settings setup where the conditional button is completely hidden and just looks like a browse data entry field.....

      Snap 2014-01-08 at 23.22.38.png Snap 2014-01-08 at 23.44.40.png
      Last edited by SNusa; 01-09-2014, 12:51 AM.
      Robert T. ~ "I enjoy manipulating data... just not my data."
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        #4
        Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

        Robert,

        I will have to try what you have done.
        Attached is the most basic sample of putting a button in a browse. You dont see the button until you flyover in the test form.

        test.zip

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          #5
          Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

          Looks fine here. The height of the browse rows was originally a bit less than it should have been to properly display all of the button but I could still see the ends.

          button.png
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

            Stan,

            I am using the latest beta build of v11 and my display looks like below. The button shown is being flown over by the cursor, using the same files above. Very odd.
            button.jpg

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              #7
              Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

              What are your display settings? Resolution and color quality? Try tweaking them.
              There can be only one.

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                #8
                Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

                I am at 1920x1080 and I tried many combos and changed from 32 to 16 bit color and same thing. What build do you have?

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                  #9
                  Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

                  3381, 4096
                  There can be only one.

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                    #10
                    Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

                    I think I have determined that this is an XP problem. I am running the same build on several machines using the XP for development. The Win 7 shows correctly.

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                      #11
                      Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

                      Mine's on XP, but good thought.
                      There can be only one.

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                        #12
                        Re: Embedded Browse Button Display Problem

                        Its a simple fix...

                        I was using the "classic" Windows Theme. Once I selected the XP theme, the button came up...

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