Events in Loop Wizard

[Chris]

I have half a dozen Define Wizard Dialogs
and then Loop Wizard

What event (or other method) can I use to detect when a user has pressed NEXT on a dialog to move to the next dialog (so I can check the user's choices and decide whether or not to show the next dialog) ?

[linder]

Chris,

See attached screenshot from the example that I uploaded for you some days ago

Friedrich

[Chris]

Thanks, yes, tried that but it did not seem to work for me.

Also, are you saying that when user press NEXT button on Dialog1, I can catch this by looking at when Dialog2 starts?
I need to catch the NEXT button on Dialog1, to decide if dialog2 should be shown or hidden.


I have found that the EVENT:ONUPDATE does seem to be triggered when NEXT is pressed, and at the moment this does seem to work for what I want. Could you confirm what things trigger EVENT:ONUPDATE ? eg. if a checkbox or radio button is clicked? Or NEXT or PREVIOUS button clicked?


Usually my criticism of software products is that they give only brief reference descriptions of what functions/events/etc do, and do not provide examples.
SetUpBuilder has plenty of excellent examples which is good. But I seem to need a bit more explanation about the functions and events etc used in the examples. eg. as question above.

[linder]

Chris,

I would strongly suggest to read the "Learning SetupBuilder Part I" again All this is explained very well in the manual and in the Examples.

I'll develop a simple demo for you...

BTW, the EVENT:ONUPDATE is fired for custom dialogs only!

Friedrich

[linder]

Okay, here we go...

http://www.lindersoft.com/projects/Chris3.zip

Hope this helps.

Friedrich

[Chris]

>> All this is explained very well in the manual and in the Examples.
>> BTW, the EVENT:ONUPDATE is fired for custom dialogs only!
Well it is useful to know that ONUPDATE is only for custom dialogs. That is the sort of vital information I cannot find explained in the manual. :-)

The examples are great -- BUT when I try to change something and find it does not work, I need to ask questions. This is probably because I am a programmer and trying to understand the syntax of the commands.

[Chris]

I have been playing with the example Custom dialog Demo 1
and I seem to find that the variable %_SB_BUTTONID% retains its value from one Dialog to the next.

>> click NEXT, the variable %_SB_BUTTONID% returns $NEXT_BTN$.

I guess this makes sense since it is just a variable rather than an Event.
If this is true, it probably explains all the problems I have been having :-)
If this is true, then I guess I need to set this (and other??) variables to "" at some point in the Loop Wizard?

[linder]

If this is true, then I guess I need to set this (and other??) variables to "" at some point in the Loop Wizard?

No, don't do this!

Friedrich

[linder]

Usually my criticism of software products is that they give only brief reference descriptions of what functions/events/etc do, and do not provide examples.
SetUpBuilder has plenty of excellent examples which is good. But I seem to need a bit more explanation about the functions and events etc used in the examples. eg. as question above.

Please see "Learning SetupBuilder Part I" (Example Files section).

Friedrich

[Chris]

>>> click NEXT, the variable %_SB_BUTTONID% returns $NEXT_BTN$.

It seems the variable %_SB_BUTTONID% is set to $NEXT_BTN$ even before the each dialog appears, even if I set it to nothing in between.
So my test "If variable %_SB_BUTTONID% equals $NEXT_BTN$" is always true, which somewhat lessens its usefulness :-(

(Though it also DOES get triggered when I DO press the Next button :-)