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rosm2004
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January 28, 2015
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Captivate 7 - Can you disable a button in Properties?

  • January 28, 2015
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Hi,

I have a screen with popups and want to disable the navigation buttons until each popup is closed. I am disabling the buttons in the scripts that open the popups, which is fine. However, I am at showing "dummy" navigation buttons on top of the real buttons that look greyed out. These don't do anything but I can't find a way of disabling them so you can't tab to them without having to write a script for the page to disable them.

Is there a way to disable buttons without writing a script for page enter?

Or, better yet, is there a way to change the look of a button between enabled and disabled (I'm using a lighter font color for my disabled buttons)?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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rosm2004Author
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January 28, 2015

I've just discovered that just disabling the buttons will not disable the tabbing. You don't see the tabbing, but nonetheless these disabled buttons are included in the tabbing.

So... is there any way to exclude buttons from the tabbing order? The only thing I can think of is to reproduce the buttons using a shape ... but I don't know whether I'd be able to get them looking exactly the same unless I use images instead.

Or, is there a way to set the focus so the tabbing starts at a specific object? For example, if I have a popup displayed, I want the focus on the Close button so they don't have to tab around all the other buttons before it gets to the Close button.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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January 28, 2015

Indeed, only way is to create a dummy image. Why not using a shape both for the button and the image? I know, in CP7 that shape button will have only two states but the image will look exactly the same as the button.

There is no way to disable a button in the Properties.

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    rosm2004Author
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    January 28, 2015

    Thanks for your response Lilybiri. 

    I can't use a shape for real buttons because they can't be selected with a keyboard Enter.

    Maybe I can create dummy buttons using an image of the real buttons.

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