Enable and Disable One Event

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Rain
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Enable and Disable One Event

Post by Rain » Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:08 pm

I really like OneEvent, my only problem is that once an Event handler is activated it remains active until you exit the script. My Suggestion is to be able to disable and enable OneEvent. There are areas in my scripts I don't want event handlers to branch to the specified Subroutine when the event occurs.

E.g.

Let>DISABLE_ONEVENT=True

Let>DISABLE_ONEVENT=False

Thank you listening.

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:17 pm

You already can. Just specify a null string for the subroutine for the same event handler setup:

//enable
OnEvent>KEY_DOWN,VK32,0,KeyPress

...
...

//disable it
OnEvent>KEY_DOWN,VK32,0,

..
..

//enable it again
OnEvent>KEY_DOWN,VK32,0,KeyPress
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Post by Rain » Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:48 pm

Thanks Marcus!
I never thought to try that. Might be worth adding to the help file.

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Post by jpuziano » Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:24 am

Rain wrote:Thanks Marcus!
I never thought to try that. Might be worth adding to the help file.
Neither did I... Yes, please add to help file... thanks and take care.
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Re: Enable and Disable One Event

Post by migro » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:47 pm

Is there a known issue when jumping into a subroutine by using an dialog handler instead of Gosub>?
I like to give the opportunity closing the dialog by pressing the ESC key. But also want to avoid closing the Macro while running a subroutine with some actions.

See the following sample code:

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Dialog>Dialog1
object Dialog1: TForm
  Left = 3521
  Top = 278
  HelpContext = 5000
  BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]
  Caption = 'CustomDialog'
  ClientHeight = 113
  ClientWidth = 476
  Color = clBtnFace
  Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET
  Font.Color = clWindowText
  Font.Height = -11
  Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'
  Font.Style = []
  OldCreateOrder = True
  ShowHint = True
  OnTaskBar = False
  PixelsPerInch = 96
  TextHeight = 13
  object BtnStart: tMSButton
    Left = 202
    Top = 40
    Width = 75
    Height = 25
    Caption = 'Start'
    TabOrder = 8
    DoBrowse = False
    BrowseStyle = fbOpen
  end
end
EndDialog>Dialog1


Let>strActivateESC=True
Gosub>OnEventKey

AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,BtnStart,OnClick,DoAction
#Gosub>DoAction


Label>DlgShow
   Show>Dialog1,r


SRT>OnEventKey
   If>strActivateESC=True
      OnEvent>KEY_DOWN,VK27,0,DoClose
   ELSE
      OnEvent>KEY_DOWN,VK27,0,
   ENDIF
End>OnEventKey

SRT>DoAction
   MDL>Start Subroutine
   Let>strActivateESC=False
   Gosub>OnEventKey
   Wait>10
   MDL>Stop
END>DoAction

SRT>DoClose
   Exit>0
END>DoClose

Label>Exit
When using a dialog handler the onEvent handler isn't deaktivated.
In my productive script the subroutine hangs when jumping from the "DoAction" subroutine to OnEventKey to disable it.
regards
migro

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Re: Enable and Disable One Event

Post by JRL » Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:33 pm

Looks to me like this could be related to the issue hagchr reported in this thread

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Re: Enable and Disable One Event

Post by migro » Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:04 pm

Thx for the link, it looks very similar. Have you got any response from marcus upon your bugreport?
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migro

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