Check Boxes

[Jgrove]

I am looking for help. I want to put checks in the check boxes instead of X's any suggestions?

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by Jgrove:

I am looking for help. I want to put checks in the check boxes instead of X's any suggestions?

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If you are using a single item field. Then make it a container. Put a button over it, which checks to see if the field is empty, if so paste a checkmark graphic into the container. Likewise the script should clear the field if it is not empty.

Pretty easy to do, but only works where you have a check or not. I do not know of an easy way to do this with multiple checkmarks in the same field.

[Jgrove]

Thanks for the respones. I was hoping there was an easy solution to this because I am graphically challenged!

[Jgrove]

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[Tom England]

How do I do the 'paste a checkmark graphic into the container' bit? I understand the rest of the process.

Thanks

[LiveOak]

A "SetField()" script step will copy the contents of one container field to another container field. To get a graphic into your "storage" or "stock graphic" container, copy it in layout mode, switch to browse mode, click into the container field and paste the graphic. The "variable" container field can then be set to the graphic using a "SetField" and cleared by setting it to "".

-bd

[kennedy]

Check out the templates at www.layoutmode.com for an example, and perhaps even some graphics you'll like. My favorite is graphite... an OSX look-alike.

[keshalyi]

Notably, its easier, and gives a bit more integrity, if you set up the container with the checkbox as a calculation. Don't have a script make a checkbox appear, instead make two global containers, one holding ap ic of an empty box, one off a filled box. Then, make a calculation with a container result, that trips to equal one or the other, depending on the value of the field that the conttainer is representing.