LibAddonMenu CheckBox

[circonian]

In a LibAddonMenu checkbox is there a function to get a true/false value to see if it is checked or not without grabbing the checkbox:GetText() and comparing it to controls checktedText to see if they match? Its a value I didn't want to save. I just wanted to read it when the user presses a button while the panel is still open and then I don't need it anymore.

I looked through the LibAddonMenu code but it looks like all it does is toggle the SetText(..) unless I'm missing something.

Edit:
While I'm at it, since LibAddonMenu controls aren't created until the panel is open is there a way to know when the controls are created so you can change the CheckedText/UncheckedText ?

[merlight]

Originally Posted by circonian In a LibAddonMenu checkbox is there a function to get a true/false value to see if it is checked or not without grabbing the checkbox:GetText() and comparing it to controls checktedText to see if they match? Its a value I didn't want to save. I just wanted to read it when the user presses a button while the panel is still open and then I don't need it anymore.

You can provide getFunc/setFunc handlers that will tie checkbox status to a variable.

local g_checked = false
 
local checkboxData = {
   ...
   getFunc = function() return g_checked end,
   setFunc = function(value) g_checked = value end,
}

Originally Posted by circonian While I'm at it, since LibAddonMenu controls aren't created until the panel is open is there a way to know when the controls are created so you can change the CheckedText/UncheckedText ?

-- hope it's correct syntax
CALLBACK_MANAGER:RegisterCallback("LAM-PanelControlsCreated", handler)

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by circonian In a LibAddonMenu checkbox is there a function to get a true/false value to see if it is checked or not without grabbing the checkbox:GetText() and comparing it to controls checktedText to see if they match? Its a value I didn't want to save. I just wanted to read it when the user presses a button while the panel is still open and then I don't need it anymore. I looked through the LibAddonMenu code but it looks like all it does is toggle the SetText(..) unless I'm missing something.

I don't know what you mean by this "when the user presses a button while the panel is still open". If what merlight provided you with is not what you are looking for, then no. There is no GetValue method, as settings are usually supposed to be saved to a saved variable. Even if you don't want to save the value to your saved variables file, you should still save it to *some* variable if you want to access it later.

Edit: While I'm at it, since LibAddonMenu controls aren't created until the panel is open is there a way to know when the controls are created so you can change the CheckedText/UncheckedText ?

Yes, register for the "LAM-PanelControlsCreated" callback, which merlight also provided above. The arg passed through is the panel whose controls are now available.

[circonian]

Originally Posted by Seerah I don't know what you mean by this "when the user presses a button while the panel is still open". Even if you don't want to save the value to your saved variables file, you should still save it to *some* variable if you want to access it later.

Yeah, what I was trying probably wasn't the best way to do it. I am saving them I just didn't want the user to have access to any of it via the controls. I was trying to reuse the controls (to avoid creating a lot of duplicate settings controls) to allow them to select different groups of settings & click a button to save them. Plus once saved I didn't want them to be able to change the settings (so I didn't want the controls linked directly to the saved variables). They can only delete their preference (group of settings) and create a new one.

I realize I could just make a dummy variable for every control I have, attach the getFunc()'s & setFunc()'s to them to temporarily hold the value, read the value from the savedVariables, copy them all to my table, then reset all the controls back to the default value so they can save another group of options. I just figured since I didn't want the controls to linked to the savedVariables & I'm resetting the controls back to default everytime anyhow, I was just looking for a way to avoid using the getFunc()'s, setFunc()'s and all of those extra dummy savedVariables that would temporarily hold the values.


Thanks for your help, both of you.