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Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

I am trying to get a list of buttons going to display my affects. I would like the button to change to a different color for every phase of the spell/skill. Right now I have one that works. However, it is not working the way I want it to. In order for the button to change color I have to click on it.

I have tried a few ways to try and get it to work but alas to no avail.

Here is an example of one of the spells I use on my mud.

The spell is called forceshield.

Its phases include:

A shieldlike protection builds up around you.
I labelled this 3 for newly casted.

The forceshield revebrates with new energy.
I labelled this 2 for refreshed.

Your forceshield is flickering.
I labelled this 1 for falling.

Slowly your magical shield fades away.
I labelled this 0 for fell.

Because I can not get my buttons to work properly I currently have my triggers reporting them to variables. For example for phase 3 the newly casted I have:

#TRIGGER {A shieldlike protection builds up around you.} {#VA forceshield 3}

Is there anyway I can get my buttons to automatically change colors rather then having to click on them?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Sure put the %btncol function directly in the caption of the button, and set an ID for the button. For example:

ID:
FSbutton

Caption:
Forceshield%if(%btncol(FSbutton,%case(%eval(@forceshield+1),red,yellow,blue,green)),,)

What this does is take the value in forceshield and add 1, this is then used to determine the return value for the %case. %case expects 1 to correllate to its first return value which is why I added 1 here. You could alternately change all your triggers so that forceshield ranged from 1 to 4 and then eliminate the %eval addition. Once %case returns %btncol does its thing and returns the button color. That return value is eaten by the %if which return nothing keeping the display of the button pretty, sadly I have found no better function for this perhaps I can convince Zugg to add a noop function. Now because zMud automatically updates button captions when a variable used in them changes the color will automatically change whenever the variable is changed.

Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Okay if I change my triggers to value 1 to 4 how would I set this up.

Currently I have it like this but I have to click on the button in order for it to change colors as said previously.

I added to the trigger that stores the value to do this as I was hoping if I just had it create a button everytime it would work but it isn't. Anyway this is what I have.

Pattern:
A shieldlike protection builds up around you.

Value:
#VA forceshield 3
#BU Forceshield {Forceshield} {#NOOP %btncol( 1, yellow, black)}

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Put the command to change colors in the trigger. Right now, your trigger puts the command to change colors into the button, so you have to press the button before the command and the color change actually happen!

Pattern:
A shieldlike protection builds up around you.

Value:
#VA forceshield 3
#CALL %btncol( Forceshield, yellow, black)

Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks for the help lightbulb.

Wanderer Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 81 Location: USA

How would I specify the state of a toggle button to change the color on?

I have a button that I use to turn my light source on and off.

I would like to change the background color of both states of this button, one color for daytime and one color for night.

Using #CALL %btncol( lightbutton, white, cyan) just changes the buttondown state.

Thanks!

Wanderer Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 98 Location: OK, USA

Toggle buttons have a color pallet next to the Caption line that allows you to change the background and text colors for the Up and Down positions.

Intro to Buttons

Wanderer Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 81 Location: USA

I understand about the color pallet next to the caption line.

What I am doing is using a trigger on the messages that announce day and night to change the background color of the button to reflect the time of day.

Using #CALL %btncol( lightbutton, white, cyan) for daytime and #CALL %btncol( lightbutton, black, yellow) for night. It seems this only changes the active state of the button.

I think I found a way to change the inactive state. I put a check into both states of the button and now when I click the button it checks to see if it is day or night and changes the color as necessary.