Triggers on dialog box element

Hi all,

I've been trying to add a trigger to a dialog box element (a checkbox in this case) so that I can change some UI elements depending on whether or not it has been selected. I have no idea how triggers are supposed to work and I've had no luck with the reference manual. Any help with this would be appreciated, my code so far is:

//DXL Export UI Example

/*
Example of new export UI
*/

// prevent dxl timeout dialog
pragma runLim, 0

//Forward function declarations
void Main()

//Globals
DB Main_Dialog

Main()

void confirmer(DB box) 
{
    string options[] = {(NLS_("Yes")), (NLS_("No"))}

    int result = messageBox((NLS_("Cancel the export?")), options, msgWarning_)
    
    if (result == 0)
    {
        hide box   
    }
}

void Main()
{
        Main_Dialog = create "UI Test"
        
        string dxlCode = "print(\"test text\")"
        
        DBE toggleRun = toggle(Main_Dialog, "Export for test run?", false)
        
        Trigger test = trigger("test", object, post, sync, 10, dxlCode)
        
        string typeRadioBoxes[] = {(NLS_("Single File")), (NLS_("Folder"))}
    DBE typeRadioBox = radioBox(Main_Dialog, (NLS_("Export Type:")), typeRadioBoxes, 0)
        
        string structureRadioBoxes[] = {(NLS_("Flat")), (NLS_("Structured"))}
    DBE structureRadioBox = radioBox(Main_Dialog, (NLS_("Export Hierarchy:")), structureRadioBoxes, 0)
        
        close(Main_Dialog, true, confirmer)
    show Main_Dialog
}

Re: Triggers on dialog box element
Mathias Mamsch - Mon Mar 13 08:36:50 EDT 2017

You can register a callback to most UI elements:

DBE myCheckbox = ...
void onClick(DBE x) { print "Hallo"; }
set(myCheckbox, onClick)

See also DXL Manual - set(select) under "Common Element Operations". Hope this helps, regards, Mathias

Re: Triggers on dialog box element
jsjlewis - Mon Mar 13 09:10:20 EDT 2017

DBE myCheckbox = ...
void onClick(DBE x) { print "Hallo"; }
set(myCheckbox, onClick)

That makes much more sense in hindsight, thank you very much!