Connect a function to a btn

I’d like a Julia function to be called when the user presses a btn, so for each btn I have defined a model boolean parameter, and I use this custom flipon function:

flipon(f::Function, r::R{Bool}) = on(r) do tf
    if tf
        f()
        r[] = false
    end
end

to then connect a function, f, to that button.

For instance, to connect a save function to a “Save” btn, I have:

flipon(save, model.save)

Is there another obvious way I missed, or should we include this somehow?

[hhaensel]

I also enhanced @click a bit more by modifier and added some help text, maybe the first one in Stipple 🤣 Enjoy!

[yakir12]

@yakir12 I really liked your idea for onbutton()

Thanks! I like everything you guys do here…!

An alias for R{Bool} sounds useful but it makes me wonder about the other widgets, should they too get aliases? What about the fact that a toggle also is a R{Bool}. R{String} can often be an input but not always… This seems like it wouldn’t be very consistent. Unless someone has many buttons in their dashboard, this seems like it would only save the user extra typing when they define their model’s type.

Another tempting shortcut (but again, with caveats) is to have the model be defined (even by a named tuple/dict) by the parameters’ names and default values alone (via a function). The parameter types can be collected from their defaults and since everything is an Observable we don’t need anything else than the names of the parameters and their default values. As a convenience function it seems fine, but it won’t allow for Inner Constructor Methods to be defined (I find it very useful to connect some of the parameters in the model to each other, when it gets initiated).