Need help figuring out how to make"zoomable" widgets

[JustinG]

@Nadahar

Another alternative is if there was a way to “trick” the action event to always set the variable first to false and then to true (instead of toggling). I don’t see how that would be possible though, since whatever acrobatics one does there, I assume that the expression will always be evaluated first and then assigned to the variable only once.

This is an interesting thought that I haven’t explored before. It’s possible that you could use something like what I describe here:

Multiple Widget Actions

Since the beginning of MainUI this question has cropped up with some regularity: Can I trigger more than one of the OH widget actions on a component with a single click? The answer has always, rightly, been: No, you can only define a single action for each component in a widget. This answer is not 100% true, there are ugly hacks that could allow a click on a link, for example, to trigger the actions of other components, but these are not truly supported nor even advised. The question (and def…

to set the variable to two different values in rapid succession.

@Nadahar

Is there no way to do some trickery and latch on to the popup:closed event? That would really be the ideal solution, but I don’t know nearly enough to know how to “abuse” the JS system.

I have not tried it, so I don’t know if there is some additional hurdle or not, however, theoretically, you could create an oh-button with the action to set the popup variable to false. Give that button an id and set it’s display to none. Then you could use some of the basic javascript access tricks here add popup event listeners that trigger the click method of that hidden button.