'Panels' of buttons

Is it possible to have a 'panel' of objects become visible / invisible and enabled and disabled on one go?

I have a panel of 6 buttons that are invisible and disabled at the start, the user clicks a different button and all six become visible and active.

At the moment I'm doing them all one by one:-

Touch > on touch start button

.............. Button 1 > Visible

.............. Button 2 > Visible

.............. Button 3 > Visible

...

...

Is there a way to group them so I can set them all in one go?

Nickydude

if all appear and disappear as one then

make family of buttons then make family visible/invisible

Yep, Families would be the best route, but for those working with the free version, you could create a "Visible" instance variable and use For each to iterate through each to hide/show.

Example: show-hide-buttons.capx

Awesome DrGreenThumbCAN! now is there a way to disable them as I can still 'press' them even though they are invisible. Would i have to move the buttons off screen when invisible?

Nickydude

do you have a capx that I can look at to see how to help?

could be as simple as adding a condition that checks to see if family (buttons) is visible.

Sure.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2485349/DiceRoller.capx

There are 6 large buttons in the middle of the screen that start invisible until the BEGIN TURN text is clicked at the top, then they become visible but you can still click them when they're invisible.

Nickydude

work today but if not ninja'd I'll help you tonight after work

sorry for delay

All you have to do is add the condition is visible:

-Is touching

-Dicebuttons is visible

-System trigger once

Thanks LittleStain, that did the job!

Nickydude

guess was ninja'd sorry

can't use C2 at work to help

hope works out for you

Thanks anyway DrGreenThumbCAN, much appreciated.

Following on from this.. IS it possible to have panels?

I want to have 'tabs' around the sides of the screen ( like Photoshop) and be able to have various objects like buttons, text, lists and so on slide into view on a panel when the tab is clicked on.

I know I could just have a graphical panel and have areas already on the main screen that can be clicked on and hide / show, enable / disable them so it looks like you're actually clicking on the buttons but I'd hoped there was a better way.

Here's a simple Visual Basic example http://youtu.be/ZPq7Zn--qKg?t=4m3s so everything is attached to the panel and as the panel moves so does everything attached.

Any help appreciated. :)