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Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to change the color of the text when the value of the variable changes.

In the caption I have:

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:43 am

Use the %btncol function. I talk about it tangentially here

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

It doesn't work. I tried.

You are talking about this right?

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

See my tool bar at the bottom? I want to change those Yes and No words between green and red, preferably lime and high red.

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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:47 am

This should do what you want.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Tech this won't work either. It just changes it to a red No whether the balance variable is true or false.

When I get balance my @LeftBal variable will be 1 and it should display a green Yes. When I lose balance my @LeftBal variable will be 0 and it should display a red No. This is what I meant by the word changing as well as the color. I used exactly what you posted and it just turned to a dark red No and didn't change no matter whether it was true or false. I'm trying to do this with all of those items at the bottom tool bar you see above. I mean I can leave them as one color but its easier to notice if the color changes when the word does between Yes and No.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

Hmm how about using an expression trigger to change the button colours (and maybe the caption at the same time.
To change colour and caption at the same time try

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Geesh are you sure that is right? You have an "<" after @balance. I didn't want to create more triggers though.

I just wish I could do something easy like this...

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:50 am

OldGuy2 the code does work.. you just have to take to change

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

I know. I tried that. It wouldn't work. In fact when I changed Balance to 0 it crashed CMUD.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

Tech's code works for me.
For any value (so far) of balance 0 , negatives empty string positives.... whatever

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:14 pm

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Glad everything works for everyone else all the time.

Normally I have the following in the caption which works just fine and frickin dandy any time the variable changes but its always the same color:

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:58 pm

OldGuy2 try my code in a blank session and see if it works for you. Beyond that, I'm not sure what else to suggest to you. You're running the latest version of the code right?

If you don't consider it proprietary (don't worry I don't even play the IRE muds), send me your package and I can see what kinds of results I get.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Well it works in a blank session. I don't understand it. Sigh... You can see what happens in mine in that screen shot. It makes it transparent on No and crashes.

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:18 am

Can you paste the full XML for you gauge button, maybe there's some thing in it that we can recreate locally.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

This is it normally:

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

What do you think Tech? It just flat out refuses to use that caption. I just reinstalled CMUD and still crashes with that caption. It works in a blank session though. Why would it crash? There is nothing in my package that should cause it to crash. I have a couple triggers that change the balance variables from true to false and back to true and that is it! Any time you change the variable value with that caption though it turns the button to transparent and crashes. The ONLY difference is that I have set up the location of my buttons manually instead of autosize and autopositioning, which is what I used in a blank session by just creating a button.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:33 am

Ok... OldGuy2, I think I figured out the problem.

The button you have (at least the code you posted) shows that the button type is 'Separator'. When it's set like that you get an error when you update it, (which makes sense because the separator shouldn't have a caption, although i think the bug should be caught and suppressed). You have to change the button type to 'Push' or some other proper button type. Since I had caused the error to occur the change did not take effect immediately. I had to save the change and restart CMUD just to make sure the update got picked afterwards. The code then worked as expected.

I know you've had issues with your packages in the past and I'm glad you have the tenacity to stick it through. If this fixes your problem, it might be good idea to audit the rest of your buttons etc. to make sure they type you think they are, are what they are really set to.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Thats not it. I changed it to a push button and it still crashed. You should still be able to display the caption in a separator. The original caption I used works perfectly fine. There is something wrong with that caption code that you gave me that makes my system crash. I know it works for you, but it just flat out refuses to work for me, even if I make the button a push button. Type LeftBalance=0 in the command line immediately changes the button to transparent with a "No" caption and crashes CMUD as seen above.

Edit:

I don't know what to say. It's the code you have above that makes it crash. My code works fine, but as soon as I enter your code and change the value of the variable to 0 or 1 CMUD crashes. Are you using the Pro version of CMUD? If it works for you, why isn't it working for me? I just went to the variable in settings and changed the 0 to 1 and hit save and boom it crashed. I enter on the command line LeftBalance=1 and boom it crashes. I take out that code and put mine back and it doesn't crash. So how can it be me?

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Ah ha! It's because I have my toolbar in a separate module. Put the variable in one module and the button in another module and use your code in the caption. I did this in a blank session and it crashed. Both of my modules are in the same package though.

Edit: Actually its a being in a module period. I put them both in the same module in a blank session and it crashed. If I just create the variable and button without putting them inside a module, it doesn't crash and works in a blank session. I also put the variable in a module and didn't put the button in and it worked fine. Putting the button in the module makes it crash with your code.

Soooo WHY is it crashing just by having this button inside a module???

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I have no idea why it is crashing with the button in a seperate module from the window. However it is a good find. Please write up a procedure to reproduce it in a blank session and post it in a seperate topic. That way it is right up top and Zugg will see it.