If I want to program to do different things depending on which buttons are pushed for an "answer question" script, how do I go about doing that?
My script for a "next" button looks something like this:

on mouseUp
answer question "Are you sure you want to continue?" with "Yes" or "No"
if it is "Yes"
then go to the next card
end if
end mouseUp

I get an error at the "end if" line, saying "compilation error at line 5 (Handler: end doesn't match handler name) near "if", char 4."
If there's another lesson/ tutorial somewhere that can teach me how to do this, all I need is the link to it. If not, instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Liz,

LiveCode processes one line at a time and uses new lines to separate a new logical instruction. The syntax for if...then...end if statements requires in your example that the "then" statement should be on the same line as the "if" statement.
All you have to do is move "then" to the line above it.

Kind Regards,

Hanson

Hi Hanson,
I've tried what you suggested, plus a few variations:

Putting the if, then, and end if all on the same line ("compilation error at line 3 (Handler: end doesn't match handler name) near "if", char 44")

Putting the end if below the if-then (compilation error at line 4 (Handler: end doesn't match handler name) near "if", char 4)

Using "end" instead of "end if" and putting it all on the same line ("compilation error at line 3 (Handler: missing handler name after end), char 39")

Using "end" instead of "end if" and putting it below the if-then ("compilation error at line 4 (Handler: missing handler name after end), char 1")

Do you have any other suggestions of how to resolve the errors?

Hi Liz,

here is an updated version of the initial code you posted with a small change. This should work for you.

on mouseUp
answer question "Are you sure you want to continue?" with "Yes" or "No"
if it is "Yes" then
go to the next card
end if
end mouseUp

Kind Regards,

Hanson

I liked this exercise and I wanted to take the points learned in this exercise to expand the previous "Buttons" one. So I took the previous exercise and I changed one of the buttons to be named "custom". Then if the user pushes the custom button it will ask him or her to select a color with a default color of "yellow" already selected.
Here is my code for the main stack (no button code).

command colorText pColor
if pColor is "custom" then
answer color with yellow
put it into tColor
set the textColor of field "text" to tColor
else
set the textColor of field "text" to pColor
end if

end colorText

on mouseUp
put the short name of the target into tColor
colorText tColor
end mouseUp

I have a situation where it would be beneficial to exit to top or to go to the next line, answer question "This will clear all Tab Icons so you can start over" with "Yes" or "No"
if it is yes then go to the next line else if it is no then exit to top (can I call a function on exit) sorry if this is not very clear,

Hi Thomas,

you can examine the "it" variable to see what the user selected. Based on the result you can then take the action you wish. This could also be a call to a function.

Kind Regards,

Hanson

Ok, hopefully this is simple,

I have a basic answer dialog with Yes or No options for the buttons.

I click Yes, and then use an If to check it. Whether I click Yes or No, the it variable is always returned as No.

Here's the code.

answer question "We could not find any databases at " & tDBFile & ". Do you want to create one?" with "Yes" or "No"
put it into QAnswer
answer question "it is " & QAnswer

If QAnswer is "Yes" Then
toplevel stack "SetupSaveSourceMain"
# from SetupSaveSourceMain I have to then connect to, or create the Database
End If

Hi

I can't see anything wrong with your code here, I tested it by creating a button and setting the script to

on mouseUp
answer question "We could not find any databases at " & tDBFile & ". Do you want to create one?" with "Yes" or "No"
put it into QAnswer
answer question "it is " & QAnswer
end mouseUp

When I click the button I get the first dialog, if I click "Yes" I get the second dialog displaying "it is Yes", if I click "No" I get it displaying "it is No".

You could try the code in a separate button, perhaps something else earlier in the code is affecting the variable.

If you need more assistance you could post your question to Stack Overflow or the LiveCode forum.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/livecode
http://forums.livecode.com/

Kind regards

Elanor

The image for the ask file dialog is incorrect

Thanks Sean, we have updated the image.

En la variable it se guarda el patch seleccionado, pero se puede guardar el Tag y otras propiedades?

Hi Javier

You can't get the tags directly from the ask file dialog but you can get them using a shell command e.g.

put shell("mdls -raw -name kMDItemUserTags test.txt")

This will return something like

(
Red
)

where "Red" is a tag. You can then parse the result to get the tags.

I hope that helps.

Kind regards

Elanor
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Hola javier

No puede obtener las etiquetas directamente desde el cuadro de diálogo Preguntar archivo, pero puede obtenerlas utilizando un comando de shell, por ejemplo.

put shell ("mdls -raw -name kMDItemUserTags test.txt")

Esto devolverá algo como

(
Red
)

donde "rojo" es una etiqueta A continuación, puede analizar el resultado para obtener las etiquetas.

Espero que eso ayude.

Saludos cordiales

Elanor

Hi. I have a return separate list which I want to use to generates options for an Answer dialog, i.e.

answer "Which subject?" with line 1 of tSubjects or line 2 of tSubjects

but the return separated list is a variable length. Any ideas?

Hi Chrissi

You should be able to construct the answer command in a variable and then use the 'do' command to execute it. Something like this should work

put "answer" && quote & "Choose an option" & quote && "with" into tCommand
repeat for each line tOption in tOptions
put space & tOption & space & "and" after tCommand
end repeat
delete the last word of tCommand
do tCommand

I hope that helps.

Kind regards

Elanor