What's the deal with togglebuttons?

[mikekantor]

By my count there should have 6 states in order to represent everything that can happen to the togglebutton.

Does anyone else feel like the togglebutton is lacking?

[Naamloos]

which ones?

Like Enable
Enable pressed
Disable
Disable pressed

and what more?

[mikekantor]

enabled
enabled hover
enabled pressed

disabled
disabled hover
disabled pressed

[Naamloos]

Originally posted by mikekantor
enabled
enabled hover
enabled pressed

disabled
disabled hover
disabled pressed

of course!!
/me is dumb

[nIRV]

there's no "hover" state in any control (buttons, sliders, etc.) but I think the toggle button needs one more state:

<off>
<off-to-on pressed>
<on>
<on-to-off pressed> <-- that's the one missing

peace

[mikekantor]

There is a hover if you use scripts:

onEnterArea()
onLeaveArea()

I'm not sure if these apply to buttons, but who says you can't make an animated file that has different states as the frames? Perhaps I will do that with these togglebuttons...

[mavsman]

You can easily make a hover image:

<button
id="Play"
action="PLAY"
x="48" y="345"
image="player.button.play"
downImage="player.button.play.pressed"
hoverImage="player.button.play.hover"
tooltip="Play"
/>
(I realize that this isn't a toggle button, but it still applies)

Easy. In the first version of Francis' tutorial I thought I saw some other states, but I may be mistaken.

[mikekantor]

but togglebuttons need 2 hover images

[mavsman]

but togglebuttons need 2 hover images

I agree, the hoverimage will solve 1/2 your problem. Again, I think I saw some other states mentioned on Francis' old tutorial. I dunno, maybe I'm dense, but I believe that I read about some that were unusual to me. If there are none, I am all for adding 'em.

[Naamloos]

I think it's easy to script.... (well there will be some problems)

Just make two buttons (normal buttons) and just hide one when the other is active, make a boolean for the value (0 = off 1 = on, something like that)

Also I dunno if there is a way to check the status of Shuffle, etc...

[schweitn]

You'll notice a similar issue if you look at Thinger Icons...

There are only 3 states:
- Enabled
- Hover
- Disabled

The hover is the same whether the component is currently enabled or disabled. You could make the same argument that there should be two hover states here as well, one for when the component is enabled and one for when the component is diabled.

[lunarboy1]

yea... scripting will do the trick and there is ways t get the state of a function. I know that Francis was talking about it in some thread.

[dodger758]

i'm trying to figure out how to make a certain image appear once a button is clicked (eg- picture A before click but after click picture B appears and stays until another click which would bring back picture A). catch my drift? if anyone knows how please help, thanks, later

[dlinkwit27]

I thnk hover depends on the type of skin. I don't particulay liek hover unless the skin si small. I hate them on anything metal that is supposed to look semi-realilistic.