Toggle button

September 5, 200718 yr

I want to create a toggle button in FM.

The button on the first click should just change color and if the user does not click a second time within say 2 seconds, the button returns to its original state.

Would using a repeating container field with 2 repetitions to hold 2 images showing the state of the button work?

Click 1 sets the flag to 1

set the repeating field to show the second image

if click 2 occurs within 2 seconds,

set flag to 0

execute a script

else

set flag to 0

end if

The trouble is how do I time the clicks?

Is there a builtin function that can time the clicks? Should I use a timestamp for each click and calculate the difference to time the click?

Thanks in advance for any help

September 5, 200718 yr

A timestamp seems like the way to go. You could have the click set a modification time field or carry a script parameter of the current time-of-click and compare it to a variable that stores the last click time...

Regards, Don

September 5, 200718 yr

Thinking a bit more though, you're going to have trouble returning the color to the if there is no second click.

There would have to be some event to trigger a screen refresh...

Are you going to lock the user into a loop so you can keep an eye on the time and update the button image on each cycle?

Regards, Don

September 12, 200718 yr

You could use a webviewer with a javascript to fade the button back to its original color.

September 16, 200718 yr

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How 'bout using an external applescript to track the time elapsed and then Applescript GUI scripting to run a second script to set the state of the button?

That way the user would not be locked into a loop?

Also has anyone tried the zipp script for this problem?

Thanks for all the posts