On Button Released Event for Mashups

[drieder]

Hello everyone,

I would like to be able to track whether a button was released in a mashup. So far I can only see the onClicked event.

I am designing a controller with 4 arrows (up, down, left, right) and I want my remote thing to move accordingly as long as these buttons are pressed. So far I have services for each direction which let the object move in this direction until it is stopped. Thats why I hoped to be able to recognize whether the button has been release, so I can call the stop service.

Please feel free to suggest different approaches for this use case if the release button event is somehow not possible to track.

Best Regards,

Dominik

[vxavier · Accepted solution]

Hello Dominik,

So, I didn't find any property or event that do what you want. But, there is an active class in the widget files. You can use this documentation to create your own event:

https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/358363C347B6425BA74531EAE94BCB5D.pdf?sc_lang=en

Also, there is a widget folder where you can find the files of the button widget to create your new custom extension with little changes.

One suggest is to make the controls a little different. Move when clicked and stop moving when clicked again. It is an easier approach(you will not need to create a new extension), but not so intuitive for the end user. 

[drieder]

Thank you for your reply. I hoped I could avoid creating a new widget since it seems quite difficult. Probably I will change the controls as you suggested.

But when you already here, do you maybe know how to set images for buttons? Currently I can only set the text right? I would like to have the buttons look like arrows, but I saw the image widgets are missing click events. 

Regards,

Dominik

[vxavier]

In the button widget you can put images in the style property, if you want to show just the arrows let everything else transparent and without labor:

[drieder]

Awesome, Thank you very much!