Hypermesh - Scripting- Tick box

Question

Hi all,

I'm trying to put a script together which uses tickboxes but can't seem to find the command to produce a tickbox.

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

Andy

tinh · Answer

Put the frame in a text box (hwtk text has scrollbars)

And then get hull of textbox, use this hull as a frame to be added to hm panel

Andy@LamteqSolutions · Answer

Many thanks Adriano,

Am typically used to creating windows using

destroy .selection
 	set f .selection;
 	frame $f
 	hm_framework addpanel $f 'Tool Selection';
 	hm_framework drawpanel $f;

Although I will give your version a go.

Something which does bother me is the padding

'pack $cb -side top -fill x -pady 2 -padx 4'

Say I have 20 options and I use this code, a column of 6 tickboxes will appear in the window and the rest will simply not appear What I would like it to do is create columns. How do I get it to create several columns?

Adriano_Koga · Answer

just as a hint that i've received from a colleague:

Most of the examples start from a 'preview' frame, in HWTK gallery, which is not available in a regular HM session.

So in order to use some widget, always create first a window/dialog, then start adding your buttons, checks, ...

In the example, 'recess' is the name of the frame/dialog

.

hwtk::dialog .d -title Dialog -transient [winfo toplevel $w]
 	.d hide apply
 	.d post
 	set recess [.d recess]

after that, add your other statments.

set w [hwtk::labelframe $recess.lf -text 'Saftey Check' -padding 2]
 	pack $w -anchor nw -pady 4 -padx 4

set i 0
 	foreach option {'Wipers OK' 'Lights OK' 'Brakes OK' 'Driver Sober'} {
 	    set cb [hwtk::checkbutton $w.b$i -text $option]
 	    pack $cb -side top -fill x -pady 2 -padx 4
 	    incr i }