Disabling a button

[gug]

hello all,

the title says it all. Is there anyway to disable the use of a button by using a script.

thx

[-Queue-]

Make the first script step Exit Script or Halt Script. If you want to conditionally disable it, use

If [yourTest]

Exit Script

End If

{remainder of script steps}

[Vaughan]

Or even simpler and IMHO cleaner...

If [ not yourtest ]

{remainder of script steps}

End If

[-Queue-]

True, but I try to avoid having too many steps within Ifs, especially if there are several nested Ifs within the remainder of steps. I think it makes it cleaner to keep the remainder steps out of the overall If to make it clearer. This may be a holdover on my part from version 5, which doesn't have the Else If step and does that whole indenting off the screen deal when you have a large number of nested Ifs. Not to mention how difficult it can be to line up Ifs with their related End Ifs.

[PeterHW]

There is something to be said for both approaches, especially with longer scripts with more nested if's I would use the "If(true) exit" approach for clarity, while for shorter scripts the "If(untrue) [script] EndIf form" is more elegant. But for a short script such as this it hardly matters.

Peter

[-Queue-]

Actually, we have no idea how long the script is. So it is up to gug to determine which one fits more appropriately. :D