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[Adron]

Normally if two alternatives do the same thing, I'd pick the shorter one. How come you're not using

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If chkwhisper.Value = 0 Then
whisper = True
Else
whisper = False
End If


or

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whisper = chkwhisper.Value = 0


or

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whisper = Not chkwhisper.Value


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[Avenge]

yeah I would rather use a short string than a million If statements, but that is just me..

[Camel]

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whisper = Not chkwhisper.Value

Not that it matters in this case, but it would be prudent to use Not CBool(chkWhisper.Value) as the VB Not function is bitwise not, not boolean not. Additionally, if chkwhisper.value was set to 2 (grayed), whisper would be set to -3 (or True if it's boolean) which may be undesired, even though I cant think of any reason you would want to do that do said checkbox.

Anyways, it's just something to keep in mind while using boolean Not/And/Or/Xor.

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?not 0; not 1; not 2
-1 -2 -3

?cbool(not 0); cbool(not 1); cbool(not 2)
TrueTrueTrue

?not cbool(0); not cbool(1); not cbool(2)
TrueFalseFalse

[Adron]

Good point, I didn't think of that. It shall be =0 then, and that's equally short, so it's a perfectly good choice!

[Camel]

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whisper = chkwhisper.Value = 0

Once again, not that it matters, but I prefer:

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whisper = (chkwhisper.Value = 0) as VB has no == operator. In c, the same code would set both the values of whisper and chkwhisper.Value to zero, but in VB the = operator is used for both value assignment and comparison.

[Grok]

Wow!  How can so many people be so wrong in so short a time in so many different ways?  My turn to be wrong.

A checkbox is tristate.  It has values 0, 1, 2.  Since 0 is unchecked, 1 is checked, and 2 is grayed, we presume 2-grayed to mean uncheckable, and thus not checked.  So 0 and 2 both will mean we don't whisper.  Only 1 means checked/whisper, so we have to check for that value.

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whisper = (chkWhisper.Value = 1)
Send Iif(whisper,"/w " & username,"") & " ---- OuTLawZ BoT"


[Camel]

A checkbox is tristate.  It has values 0, 1, 2.  Since 0 is unchecked, 1 is checked, and 2 is grayed, we presume 2-grayed to mean uncheckable, and thus not checked.  So 0 and 2 both will mean we don't whisper.  Only 1 means checked/whisper, so we have to check for that value.

IIRC, 2 just means grayed. It doesn't specify checked or not -- it can be either grayed checked or grayed unchecked and either way the state will be 2, based on the last value before it was set to 2.

[Grok]

A checkbox is tristate.  It has values 0, 1, 2.  Since 0 is unchecked, 1 is checked, and 2 is grayed, we presume 2-grayed to mean uncheckable, and thus not checked.  So 0 and 2 both will mean we don't whisper.  Only 1 means checked/whisper, so we have to check for that value.

IIRC, 2 just means grayed. It doesn't specify checked or not -- it can be either grayed checked or grayed unchecked and either way the state will be 2, based on the last value before it was set to 2.

If you can make it unchecked+grayed, you have a different checkbox than I do.  Mine is always checked+grayed when the value is 2.  The value cannot be "2, based on the last value before 2" because that doesn't even make sense.  There are not multiple values of 2.  It is a discrete value.

Tossing aside all that, the common-sense approach is this is a "Check me to lock whisper" box, most likely.  This means the user will be checking and unchecking it when the bot is online, and the only time it will be grayed is when the user is offline, making whispers nonsensical.

[CrAz3D]

chkWhisper.value = vbChecked works jsut aswell

[Adron]

chkWhisper.value = vbChecked works jsut aswell

But now you've inverted the sense from the post I replied to. That post set whisper to True if and only if the box was unchecked! You're doing the opposite.

[Grok]

chkWhisper.value = vbChecked works jsut aswell

But now you've inverted the sense from the post I replied to. That post set whisper to True if and only if the box was unchecked! You're doing the opposite.

Yes I thought that was strange.  If you follow the replies back to the original, it was only whispering when the box was checked.   Someone messed it up along the way.  Dr.Jay, I think.

[tA-Kane]

Not that it really matters, but in REALbasic, you can set both the checked and the greyed properties of a checkbox, using .value and .enabled, respectively.

This is quite useful if you want to disable a checkbox, but still show what its value was to the user, or even save its value, so that it's automagically restored when the checkbox gets ungreyed.

[Adron]

Yes I thought that was strange.  If you follow the replies back to the original, it was only whispering when the box was checked.   Someone messed it up along the way.  Dr.Jay, I think.

Yes, that was another reason I picked his post to reply to. Much more interesting that way

[Camel]

Not that it really matters, but in REALbasic, you can set both the checked and the greyed properties of a checkbox, using .value and .enabled, respectively.

This is quite useful if you want to disable a checkbox, but still show what its value was to the user, or even save its value, so that it's automagically restored when the checkbox gets ungreyed.

Same thing in vb. The .enabled property when set to false disables the checkbox, meaning you cannot check it. The .value property when set to 2 just turns it gray, but it can still be checked. IIRC, both methods will show the previous state of the checkbox (checked or unchecked).

[tA-Kane]

Ahh, my bad.

So if you set .value to 2, how do you know if it was checked or not?