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How to make buttons unclickable?

Postby Protagonist » Wed Apr 04, 2007 21:20

Hi there, I was wondering if anybody knows how to make a button unclickable, but without setting it to not enabled, so it looks like an enabled button, but simply cannot be clicked.
I was thinking I could perhaps disable event capture for it, but have had no luck.
Any help would be great, thanks a lot :)

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Postby scriptkid » Thu Apr 05, 2007 08:29

Hi,

you might try if calling 'setMutedState(true)' on your button does what you need. This keeps the button as-is, only while seeming to deny events, hence the name of the method.

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Postby Levia » Thu Apr 05, 2007 08:42

You could also simply not subscribe to the button clicked event, but I think scriptkid's way is more efficient :P
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Postby scriptkid » Thu Apr 05, 2007 08:59

^^ hehe didn't think about that one :)

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Postby Protagonist » Thu Apr 05, 2007 09:33

Thanks a lot both of you :).

That's what I was looking for.

Yeah, I thought that too regarding not subscribing to the event, but I don't explicitly, yet a clicked event must be fired anyway because it changes.

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Postby Protagonist » Thu Apr 05, 2007 09:36

Oh right, I need to call setMutedState in the onlick event? Thus making it seem like it's not accepting a click event?
Hmm, oki.

You see, maybe I shouldn't have been doing this, but I'm using buttons as table titles... one for each column, because well they look pretty, haha.

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Postby Levia » Thu Apr 05, 2007 09:42

No not in the onClick event. Just when you create it. You dont have to subscribe to the onClick event when muting a button.
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Postby Protagonist » Thu Apr 05, 2007 09:44

Okay, in that case it doesn't work. The first thing I did was try muting it when creating it..

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Postby Levia » Thu Apr 05, 2007 09:49

Yes that should work, but as you stated it doesnt, I would just not subscribe to the onclick event. Other option is, ofcourse, disable it, but you didn't want to do that :)

Alternatively, you could edit the looknfeel, and create something new, but it requires alot of work if you are not already into Falagard mapping. I wouldnt do this if you only plan to have a 'disabled' button.
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Postby scriptkid » Thu Apr 05, 2007 09:53

Protagonist wrote:Okay, in that case it doesn't work. The first thing I did was try muting it when creating it..


I tested this with the "quit" button in Sample7 and when i mute the button, i can click it without the application to shut down... this is the code:

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WindowManager ::getSingleton().getWindow("Demo7/Window1/Quit")->setMutedState(true);
    WindowManager ::getSingleton().getWindow("Demo7/Window1/Quit")->
        subscribeEvent(PushButton::EventClicked, Event::Subscriber(&Demo7Sample::handleQuit, this));


Clicks are denied... can you post your code if it still doesn't work?

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Postby Protagonist » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:26

Ahh well you see, I want to make it non clickable. So mutedState prevents events?
I was looking for something that has the effect of setEnabled(false), but without dimming the button, so it looks active and pretty, not greyed out.

So effectively, I have something that looks like a normal button, but isn't a button (at least it doesn't behave like one - can't be clicked)

Does that make sense?

Thanks a lot.

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Postby Levia » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:17

I understand what you want, but not why. You could easily do this with a statictext with a background and a frame. But if you really want the button, you will need to either use setEnabled or change the looknfeel. If you want, I can write the looknfeel entry for you, you just simply paste it in your looknfeel file, and use setLooknFeel on the button (I think that'll work, never tested though).
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Postby Protagonist » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:01

Ahh. Hmm, well I thought widget reuse would be a good idea. I didn't want to define lots of textures and stuff. If I could simply apply the texture used by the windowslook buttons to a static image that'd be cool, but I have no idea how to do that.

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Postby Levia » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:05

Thats kinda like the same. The looknfeel entry of that button is going to be very simple to do. I could make it for you if you like. It would come out as a normal button, unclickable, and no hover action.
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Postby Protagonist » Thu Apr 05, 2007 13:46

Hehe, if you don't mind, that'd be great :).

It's for the WindowsLook/PushButton

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