Use same button for multiple actions?

[Gibbon]

HI, after many years of use i have come accross a small issue ive never encounted before yet it seems so trivial.

Im wanting to use a button for multiple actions, so i though i could use a flag or variable to differentiate which action is to be applied when the button is pressed.

But what im finding is, it does ALL actions. I have included an example to show. Application.mfa

You will notice there is 5 actions, but pressing the button once applies them all. How do i overcome this?

Thanks
Andy

[ProdigyX]

It does that because it goes from top to bottom. So when Global Value A is 0 and the button is clicked, Global Value A goes to 1. Then it moves on to the next instance of the condition. When the button is clicked, it still reads all instances of that condition, from top to bottom. To achieve something like what you want you can do one of two things.

One:
Do what you have now, but carefully order the events (may cause problems later on)

Two:
Put that series of events in a group. When the correct condition is met, deactivate the group. After the group have an "Always -> Activate group "xxx" "

[Phi]

You need to set a flag on as an action under all those click buttons, and check the flag is false in a condition on all the events. After all of the events, add a new event to reset the flag to false.

[Gibbon]

It does that because it goes from top to bottom. So when Global Value A is 0 and the button is clicked, Global Value A goes to 1. Then it moves on to the next instance of the condition. When the button is clicked, it still reads all instances of that condition, from top to bottom. To achieve something like what you want you can do one of two things.

One:
Do what you have now, but carefully order the events (may cause problems later on)

Two:
Put that series of events in a group. When the correct condition is met, deactivate the group. After the group have an "Always -> Activate group "xxx" "

I noticed that after and re-ordered yet i get the same result. Although ive not tried it yet, putting them all into groups and then activating and deactivating seems a very long way around this? Lots of actions for such a little job?

You need to set a flag on as an action under all those click buttons, and check the flag is false in a condition on all the events. After all of the events, add a new event to reset the flag to false.

I think i have tried to follow you on this yet i still get the same issue, and can see why as this still does the same as before, but now toggling flags? Is this what you mean? Application.mfa

Thanks
Andy

[ProdigyX]

Initially, I meant put all 5 events into one group, not each event into its own group. With one big group, as soon as one of the conditions fire, the group gets deactivated and the rest of the events are "skipped" What you did with the flags is a slightly longer and more clustered way, but the flags and the groups achieve the same thing. With the single group. at most you would be adding 8 things; 6 actions, the group and 1 condition.

[Gibbon]

ahh i see now, that seems to work fine. Thanks Prodigy.

Andy

[ffomega]

I am currently writing an application that uses several buttons, each of which have multiple actions. One way is to use flags, the other way is to create a global value or use a counter. Once the counter or GV is set to a specific value, upon click have the button do a set action. I use flags, GVs, and counters.