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- From: bronson@engr.latech.edu (Patrick K. Bronson)
- Subject: Re: Automatic buttons in 4th Dimension
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.040526.4009@engr.latech.edu>
- Summary: don't use automatic actions!
- Keywords: buttons
- Sender: bronson@engr.latech.edu
- Organization: Louisiana Tech University
- References: <1992Jul20.232951.1796@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:05:26 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Jul20.232951.1796@nntp.hut.fi> t35058d@kaira.hut.fi (Sami Markus Kuisma) writes:
- >Hi there!
- >
- >I have a serious problem with 4D's automatic buttons. Some of them are quite
- >useful, like Add and Delete Included but designer doesn't have any control
- >over those. The normal Enable/Disable Button commands don't have any effect
- >on automatic buttons. So is there any other way to enable/disable them?
- >
- >My main problem at the moment is Add To Included button. I have related many
- >file in included layout. After the user has added certain amount of related
- >records I want to disable the Add To Included button. How Can I do that?
- >
- >Also does somebody know if it's possible to get amount of 4D's free memory
- >without using external procedures? If not maybe it's time to buy that External
- >Kit...
- >
- >Hopefully waiting for solutions
- >
- >Sami Kuisma
-
-
- Sami,
- Don't use automatic actions if you want to disable a button. The
- language reference says that the only time this would work (enable/disable)
- is when you use the delete record action. I have had problems far to often
- when using automatic actions, so I generally handle it all with a no action
- button with an attached script. You get better control, and you get better
- results. So far I haven't found any case where I couldn't acomplish the same
- thing as an automatic action, through scripting.
-
- As for the memory question, I thought that there were a few pd externals that
- do the trick. Someone else might know the exact ones to look for.
-
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- Pat Bronson (bronson@engr.latech.edu)
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