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Will a method be forth coming to make a CTB display its toggle or state the way the native XY buttons can?

Looked in The XYplorer Roadmap and did not see anything but it may be a question of terminology or nomenclature.

It would be of inestimable value to have visual feedback on the state of a carefully crafted button and may lead to more users implementing them which would be an asset to the software in general and maybe even augment sales.

It would be of inestimable value to have visual feedback on the state of a carefully crafted button and may lead to more users implementing them

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How does the button know about its state?

Something along theses lines ?? As stated really think this idea would be a significant advance.

That's the icon. But I meant the state. What tells the button in what state it is in? Some variable must be connected to this. How? And how is this variable remembered across sessions?

just a thought: what if a defined alias would store state for icon?
(don't mean i think this is a feature to focus development)

eil wrote:just a thought: what if a defined alias would store state for icon?

Not sure what you mean. The state can be a user-defined entity, or it can depend on some volatile property of the file system, or the day time, or whatever. Witin the current framework of scripting and CTB I don't see a way to do this. Otherwise I would have long done it.

is it possible at all to change CTB icon with a script?(to send another icon path to already existing button) that can be a corner stone for such feature..
as in many other cases, CEA could be helpful here.

eil wrote:is it possible at all to change CTB icon with a script?(to send another icon path to already existing button) that can be a corner stone for such feature..

I demonstrated one way to achieve a state-like button, but it requires defining multiple buttons (one for each icon) and then having each one update the toolbar.

See here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 463#p66463

EDIT: Wording.

admin wrote:Witin the current framework of scripting and CTB I don't see a way to do this. Otherwise I would have long done it

On reflection this should have been obvious.

If wishes could do dishes ...

TheQwerty's work around solution by swapping the buttons is innovation and will be experimented with.

Thanks to those who participated in this thread!

Just a thought about this...

The definition of the button could reference a variable, and it could define multiple icons.
If the variable is defined and numeric it defines the number of the defined icon.
If it's undefined, not numeric, or out of range of the number of icons the default icon "0" is shown.
It seems the variable must be global...

Maybe this could be a start?

TheQwerty wrote:I demonstrated one way to achieve a state-like button, but it requires defining multiple buttons (one for each icon) and then having each one update the toolbar.
See here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 463#p66463

interesting variant.