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Creating BooleanButtons from a list

climbnc

Hello,

I have the following list

listA = list("testA" "testB"  "testC")

and i want to create a boolean button for each list item to be able to add to a form.

i tried creating the buttons using the following and then adding the button to the form using hiAddField.  I believe the issue is that i do not have a variable name for the hiCreateBooleanButton.  

Im not sure how to have the variable name of hiCreateBooleanButton be the same as the variable buttonName.

Can anyone point out what i am missing or doing wrong please?

foreach(item listA

            buttonName = stringToSymbol(strcat(item "_booleanButton"))

            hiCreateBooleanButton (

            ?name buttonName 

            ?buttonText item

            )

           )

Thanks,

Chris

  • Hi Chris,

    The variable that is used to store the fields doesn't require any special name - it's just a means of holding it prior to adding the field. So you could do either:

    foreach(item listA
      buttonName = stringToSymbol(strcat(item "_booleanButton"))
      newButton=hiCreateBooleanButton(
        ?name buttonName
        ?buttonText item
      )
      hiAddField(yourForm newButton) ; or use the 2D info if needed
    )

    or you could do:

    newButtons=foreach(mapcar item listA
      buttonName = stringToSymbol(strcat(item "_booleanButton"))
      hiCreateBooleanButton(
        ?name buttonName
        ?buttonText item
      )
    )

    In this second case, newButtons would be a list of the newly created buttons, and you could then use hiAddFields to add them, or do a foreach over newButtons to add them one at a time. You could potentially do something like this if you want the field positions:

    y=30
    newButtons=foreach(mapcar item listA
      y=y+30
      buttonName = stringToSymbol(strcat(item "_booleanButton"))
      list(
        hiCreateBooleanButton(
          ?name buttonName
          ?buttonText item
        )
        0:y 150:30 100
      )
    )

    hiAddFields(yourForm newButtons)

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank  you Andrew.  This was very helpful.

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