Greg Engelkemeir wrote:

> Up till now I've just used FB's built in buttons, edit fields, etc. Now I'm
> trying to expand into using toolbox controls, specifically those I've swiped
> from the "AppearanceParade" demo. My question is: How do I get the event
> loop to recognize when a control has been hit and which one it was?

Not sure what you're using/doing, Greg, but

If you're creating the buttons with FB BUTTON Statements, the following should
help:

ON DIALOG 'In the Main Event Loop of your Program

calls FN doDialog 'Which should have something like the following


LOCAL FN doDialog
    DIM evnt%
    DIM id%
       evnt% = DIALOG(0)
       id% = DIALOG(evnt%)
   SELECT CASE evnt%
       CASE  _wndClose
             END
       CASE _btnClick    'All btns that are clicked come through here
             SELECT CASE id%  'This is the Button's number
                  CASE _btnNo1 'A button's number
                         'Have it do something here
                  CASE _btnNo2 'Another button's number
                         'Have this one do something here
            END SELECT
       CASE ELSE   'All the other events
  END SELECT
END FN

If you're drawing them yourself with ToolBox calls, and the like,
then I suggest you not do that; however, if you do, then you've
got a lot of work ahead of you.  Staz is in the process, with the
help of several guys on this list, of incorporating the Appearance
Mgr Controls into BUTTON, EDIT FIELD statements, etc.; so I'd
wait just a little bit.  I'm assuming here that you're using FB^3.
If not, getting FB^3, would be my suggestion.

HTH - a little,

Joe Wikins

PS --  I'm probably the only guy dumb enough to be online on
a Friday evening, but I am watch ESPN2 Friday Night Fights.
Much rougher than FB.  < smile >