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Add custom buttons to form

dragank

Hi, all..

I am trying to add custom buttons to "hiCreateAppForm".

Here is what i did:

?buttonLayout '('Empty '('Plot 'plotAL) '('Cancel 'cancelAL))

But this gives me an error:

*** Error in routine error:
Message: *Error* hiCreateAppForm: first arg must be a symbol specifying the base button list

Entering new debug toplevel due to error:

I tried to follow skuiref.pdf but it seeme that I am Missing the format.

Thank you in advance.

  • Andrew Beckett

    You have way too many quotes in that list. Once a list is quoted, everything within it is literal and there's no need to embed further quotes for the literal items within the list. In fact if you do, you're embedding the quote function. So what you have is equivalent to:

    ((quote Empty)
     (quote
      ((quote Plot)
       (quote plotAL)
      )
     )
     (quote
      ((quote Cancel)
       (quote cancelAL)
      )
     )
    )

    All you need is:

    ?buttonLayout '(Empty (Plot plotAL) (Cancel cancelAL))

    Do note that the documentation does say:

    Specify either OK, Close, or Quit as one of the button names in your list of custom buttons so the form can be closed. You can use hiFormClose() as the callback for these buttons.

    You may not be able to remove your form otherwise. With KDE I can use the "X" on the form to close it, but not all window managers offer such an ability. Or your button callbacks could call hiFormCancel within them, but that won't keep the values you've entered for next time (if you're displaying the form multiple times).

    Andrew

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