Dialog checkbox state remembered between calls?

Questions & Suggestions
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Is there is a good way of enabling checkboxes on a ‘Prompt for User input’ dialog action to remember their state ?

I notice that the 1|0 ⇄ 0|1 default specifiers can be built from two numeric variables flanking a pipe character (using a three-character string variable value like “0|1” or “0|1” doesn’t seem to be read as a checkbox spec.

I suppose it might be possible to update the two numeric variables at the end of a macro, to reflect the current state of the checkbox’s resulting string variable state, but this begins to feel as if it may be drifting into Heath Robinson territory :- )

Might there be something simpler that hasn’t occurred to me ?

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This works for me:
Enter this as default value: |%CkBoxVarName%|0|1

You do need to have an IF test up front to initialize CkBoxVarName if it does not exist.

3

It just occurred to me that maybe you are dynamically building the default value for the prompt. I had trouble with that, until I used this:

|%Variable%DND__Author%|%Variable%DND__AuthorList%

The key is having the first vertical bar.

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4

Perfect. Many thanks

5

The vertical bar is only needed at the front if you need to have multiple separated items within a single variable expanded to multiple items in the list, which is not the case here.

Just use:

%CkBoxVarName%|0|1

The first time you run it, it will be a popup menu - select 0 or 1 and to set the initial value of CkBoxVarName and after that it will be a checkbox.

This is because:

0|0|1 is a checkbox defaulting to 0 (same as 0|1)

and

1|0|1 is a checkbox defaulting to 1 (same as 1|0)

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