Zugg Software :: View topic - [1.34] Disabled trigger substate disables the whole trigger

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

You can unset the enabled flag on a substate of a trigger (any but the first) and this ends up disabling the whole trigger. This might be annoying, as you can't readily see this once the states are collapsed (the trigger does not gray out), and since double-clicking on a state toggles the flag, it could be easy to do by mistake.

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:22 pm

I'm not sure if this is a bug - I always thought that states couldn't be disabled separate from their parent trigger or button. If it's not a bug, you're right that a UI update could be a good idea. Perhaps there's even room to add that feature, being able to enable and disable states individually.

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

The critical part of the bug is that the substate is what grays out, not the whole trigger. So once you collapse the states down, it still looks enabled.

It might be nice if you could disable a substate, but that's more a feature request.

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 190 Location: Canada

Nod... I've attempted to disable substates in the past and I was told it wasn't possible. Would definitely be a cool feature, and for some conditional triggers, a potentially powerful addition... the trigger conditions could change based on information from previous states. I'd say that if a substate were disabled, continue with the next substate (if one exists).

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:03 am

Can't you accomplish this by basically having a secondary trigger that you substate enables or disables. I tend to use this approach and it works for me. I even prefer it to using the Within Lines parameter, but that may be more out of habit.

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:29 pm

Individual trigger states cannot be disabled....double-clicking a trigger state changes the enable/disable of the parent trigger (as you noticed). I'll add an item to the to-do list for the future to see if individual states can be enabled or disabled. When I remove the code that allows you to double-click a trigger to enable/disable it, then this shouldn't be so much of a problem. I'll also try to fix it so that it properly shows the main trigger as disabled instead of the sub state.