OnAction-Property of ToolbarButton needs to call a function with param

[spitzmuller]

Hi there

I am currently writing code to create a custom toolbar. At runtime, this toolbar will be populated with buttons - one for each open form - to give one-click access to all open forms.

For that i need to have the OnAction-Property call a function with an argument (the name of the button that was clicked).

I tried to use

.OnAction = "ShowForm('MainForm')"

where ShowForm is a function that brings to front the corresponding from

But it doesn't work: error: "can't run the macro or callback function". If I remove the argument from the function, it works, but I need the argument to know what button has been pressen.

I hope I can make myself clear...

Any Ideas? Thanks

 

[TheAceMan1]

How are ya spitzmuller . . .

. . . and this:

[blue].OnAction = "=ShowForm('MainForm')"[/blue]

See Ya! . . . . . .

 

[spitzmuller]

I'm fine, AceMan. Thanks for your reply

your code is what I tried first, but I get the error:

"The expression you entered has a function name that MyDatabase can't find."

As I said: it works if the same function does not take an argument. Is it possible that .OnAction cannot call functions with arguments?

What would also help as a workaround is if you knew a way to determine in the OnAction code what button on the toolbar has been pressed (as I d'like to give all buttons the same OnAction argument).

Thanks again for your help Simon

 

[spitzmuller]

Hi there again

I figured out what the problem was: my ShowForm-Procedure was defined as as Sub, but the OnAction Property needs a FUNCTION n to be called.

So I changed Sub to Function and It works a charm.

Thanks AceMan for giving me some fresh ideas about the problem... I was beginning to get desperate on this the other day