gui items like check boxes etc

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tenij000 Senior Member Joined: 30/05/2025 Location: Netherlands Posts: 106	Posted: 12:32am 24 Jun 2025       those check boxes or switch other gui items i have to do that option somthing but says it is perament does that mean can only set 1 time the amount of switches check boxes etc
phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: Australia Posts: 3216	Posted: 02:07am 24 Jun 2025       Most permanent options can be changed by first removing them with:- OPTION xxx DISABLE Then entering the revised option. There are a few that can changed by just entering the revised option. The Advanced Graphics PDF doesn't say which method so just try it.
Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 3362	Posted: 03:31am 24 Jun 2025         tenij000 said   those check boxes or switch other gui items i have to do that option somthing but says it is perament does that mean can only set 1 time the amount of switches check boxes etc In short, YES. You only define a GUI control once (preferably at the start of the program) and then it appears on the screen and will be managed by MMBasic.  The user can then touch it to turn it off/on, etc and you can read its control property in your program to determine what the user has done. You can also remove the GUI control but it is best left there for the duration of your program.  You can also hide and restore GUI controls.  Read the Advanced Graphics PDF as it has a detailed description of how to use this feature. Geoff
TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 6529	Posted: 05:18am 24 Jun 2025       I think he is referring to OPTION GUI CONTROLS nnn You can change to number of controls but not within a program. Changing the number of GUI controls causes memory to be reallocated. A good start is to set the number of controls to 39 which reserves 2k bytes. Setting 40 will double the allocated memory. Jim
phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: Australia Posts: 3216	Posted: 05:35am 24 Jun 2025         Quote   You can change to number of controls but not within a program. Changing the number of GUI controls causes memory to be reallocated. A good start is to set the number of controls to 39 which reserves 2k bytes. Setting 40 will double the allocated memory. That would be useful in the Advanced Graphics PDF.   Advanced Graphics PDF said   Options, Commands and Functions Detailed Listing Options Permanent? <- appears to suggest some ambiguity at the time of writing OPTION GUI CONTROLS NbrOfGUIControls  Specifies the maximum number of GUI controls that can be defined. Each control uses 52 bytes and the total memory used must be rounded up to the next 2048 byte multiple. For example, specifying 70 controls will use 4KB of RAM. By default the number of GUI controls is set to zero so this option must be used before any GUI controls are defined.
Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 3362	Posted: 06:57pm 24 Jun 2025       On Page 1 of the manual the option is described quite clearly:   Quote   To use the GUI controls the memory required for the GUI controls must be allocated first by using the command OPTION GUI CONTROLS.  Typically you would use the command like this:   OPTION GUI CONTROLS 75 This will set the maximum number of controls that you can define to 75.  This option is permanent (i.e. it will be remembered on power down).  By default the maximum number of controls is set to zero and in this case the GUI features will not be available and no memory will be used. Geoff
tenij000 Senior Member Joined: 30/05/2025 Location: Netherlands Posts: 106	Posted: 08:44pm 24 Jun 2025       OPTION GUI CONTROLS 39 GUI TEXTBOX 13, 20, 30, 150, 30, RGB(255,255,255), RGB(0,0,0) CtrlVal(13) ="hello" is also a way to disable 1 if needid GUI TEXTBOX 13 <<<< then change it for example into somthing else like checkbox
TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 6529	Posted: 09:54pm 24 Jun 2025       Please read the Advanced Graphics Functions.pdf You have GUI HIDE GUI SHOW GUI DISABLE GUI ENABLE GUI DELETE Unless you are running short of memory, there is no need to DELETE