janin@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Adam L. Janin) (06/28/91)
--- I would like a simple way of obtaining the id of a specific card the user chooses, much in the way that the "Link To" button in the button dialog box functions. I _could_ just create a button, fake a click on the "Link To" button, and extract the selected id from the button's script, but that's really ugly. Is there a more elegant way? Is it possible to use the Link To palette manually? Thanks, Adam Janin janin@gap.caltech.edu
bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter) (06/28/91)
In article <1991Jun27.182233.4298@nntp-server.caltech.edu> janin@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Adam L. Janin) writes: >I would like a simple way of obtaining the id of a specific >card the user chooses, much in the way that the "Link To" button >in the button dialog box functions. I _could_ just create a button, >fake a click on the "Link To" button, and extract the selected id >from the button's script, but that's really ugly. Is there a more >elegant way? Is it possible to use the Link To palette manually? I don't know of a way to use the "Link To" palette manually, but you could make your own palette and trigger it manually with a button or programatically from a script. Depending upon what you want to do it could be pretty easy. Just stuff the initiating location in a global variable (like startlink) so you can jump back to it, bring up the palette with navigational buttons and a "Link to this location" button of some sort, and when the "Link" button is pressed "put the id of this card into endLink" or some such global and return to where you started using the information that you stored in the startLink global. If you get stuck with the scripting give another yell. <-> Bruce Carter, Courseware Development Coordinator bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725 duscarte@idbsu.bitnet (This message contains personal opinions only) (208)385-1250@phone