binding a radio group

Scripting Forums AppleScript Studio & Xcode
#1

So I went through the article about preferences that is stickied. I’m still a little confused however. So in my preferences window there is a radio group with 2 options. I binded the radio group like it says in the article. Now for the applescript. Now assuming my code looks something like this:

on will finish launching theObject
   try
       tell user defaults
          make new default entry at end of default entries with properties {name:"launchMode", content:???}
       end tell
   end try
end will finish launching

I don’t know what to put for content for a radio group (hence the “???” in my code :P) What I want to do is save whatever is selected in the prefs window and upon relaunch open a certain window depending on what radio button is selected. So I guess my read would be something like this?

  tell user defaults
       set launch_mode to content of default entry "launchMode"
 end tell

and then would i just do an if statement to check the value of launch_mode? Defaults confuse me :confused:

#2

I would bind the Selected Index and then use an if statement to handle the possible values.

#3

this is my code:

on will finish launching theObject
	tell window "prefs"
		set launchchoice to current row of matrix "launch_choice" of box "launch_box"
		
	end tell
if launchchoice = 1 then
			hide window "hud1"
			show window "main"
		else if launchchoice = 2 then
			hide window "main"
			show window "hud1"
		end if
	try
		tell user defaults
			make new default entry at end of default entries with properties {name:"launchMode", content:launch_choice}
		end tell
	end try
end will finish launching

When fullmode is turned on it works perfectly but when search mode is turned on the main window won’t hide

#4

It would start at 0 and increase from there.

It probably doesn’t exist yet.

awake from nib

I would try having nothing visible at launch, and then use the launched event to check the user defaults and display the appropriate window.

#5

That did it! Thanks :smiley: