Navigation bar: how to set hilite of item to false?

[simon.schvartzman]

Hi "helpers"...as I can see once an item of a Navigation Bar is selected it remains hilited (blue icon) until another one is clicked.

I would like it to behave differently in other words after performing whatever action is to be performed I would like to set its hilite property to false (black icon).

I have tried several alternatives with no success:

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set the hilite of item "CheckIn" of widget "ActionsBar" of card "Main" to false

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set the hilite of item 1 of widget "ActionsBar" of card "Main" to false

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set the hilite of widget "ActionsBar" of card "Main" to false

It has to be a way to do it, someone to the rescue?

Thanks

[Klaus]

Hi Simon,

looks like this is not implemented, maybe you can get away with this trick somehow:

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set the hilitecolor of widget 1 to the forecolor of widget 1
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?

Best

Klaus

[simon.schvartzman]

Hi Klaus, it does the trick, many thanks.

Regards

[bwmilby]

There is a PR to add this option:
https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6404

You could always pull down the source for the widget and update it for your own use while waiting for it to get published.

The syntax will be:

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set the hilitedItem of widget to 0

[simon.schvartzman]

Thanks Brian for letting me know about this.

Regards

[Klaus]

This is good news!

[marksmithhfx]

I would like it to behave differently in other words after performing whatever action is to be performed I would like to set its hilite property to false (black icon).

I am not sure if this is what you were looking for but setting the hiliteditemname to "item name" highlights an item, and setting it to empty sets them all back to grey.

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      set the hiliteditemname of widget "Navigation Bar" to empty

Mark

[simon.schvartzman]

Thanks Mark, I've already accomplish my goal using Brian's suggestion above.

But I'll try your approach next time I need it.

Best!