Is it possible to 'toggle' a button added within Panel from function outside of GJS?
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Hi Guys, Firstly awesome project, have really enjoyed extending GJS to work with our use case - and am excited for what's in store looking at some of the issues/features in-progress... So, I'm using GJS to with custom buttons added into the Panel via addButton (like so): Now all works as expected when you toggle/untoggle the button - however I want to run the toggleCropMarkers() function which is called when the button is toggled, outside of the editor - (in this case I'm calling the function when the document is loaded) - and I would like to manually set the state of the button to 'toggled'....
Answers (2)
Hi @ned-kelly try this:
const cropBtn = editor.Panels.getButton('options', 'cropmarks');
cropBtn.set('active', 1)
cheers!
@pouyamiralayi, you're amazing - sorry for asking what's seemingly a simple question - couldn't find any previous GitHub issues or comments about this in the documentation!
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