Buttons Screen

The Buttons screen's properties dialog contains the following four tabs of properties you can set:

Settings

Instructions

Top:

The text you want to appear at the top of the screen, above all of the buttons.

Bottom:

The text you want to appear at the bottom of the screen, below all of the buttons.

Buttons

ID

The control IDs of each button on the current screen.

Label

The text label of each button on the current screen.

Note: Using the ampersand character (&) in a button's label text will make the character to its right a mnemonic key for the control.

Description

The description text associated with each button on the current screen.

Add

Open the Button Properties dialog where you can add a new button to the current screen.

Note: The maximum number of buttons on the screen is 6.

Remove

Remove the currently selected button from the screen.

Edit

Open the Button Properties dialog where you can edit the properties of the currently selected button.

Up ( )

Move the selected button up one position in the button list.

Down ( )

Move the selected button down one position in the button list.

Options

Height:

The height (in pixels) of all of the buttons.

Width:

The width (in pixels) of all of the buttons.

Language

Language:

The supported language you want to translate the screen text for. You can click the select button ( ) to select a different language currently supported in your update.

Note: You can add additional language support from the Languages dialog which can be accessed by going to Project > Languages...

 

Tip: You can see how the screen will look at runtime by clicking the Preview button.

Attributes

The screen's attributes tab contains generic settings such as its design-time name, window title, banner style and text and various button settings. The details of this tab's contents are explained in the Screen Attributes topic.

 

Style

The Style tab is used to customize the screen's appearance beyond the global project theme.

Override Project Theme

Override the global project theme in order to customize the appearance of the current screen. These settings are the same as the Theme Properties dialog, except they only affect the current screen.

Note: Unchecking this option after changes have been made will restore the default theme settings. Any changes made to these settings will be lost.

Tip: If you are editing a screen and you have the Override Project Theme selected, you can right click on the screen preview and select "Save as Theme..." to save the created theme.

 

Actions

The Actions tab contains the action editor dialog where you can add actions or scripts to each event supported by the screen.

Note: Some events will already contain action script and should not be modified unless you want to customize the default behavior of the screen.

The Buttons screen contains the following screen events:

Tip: You can use the On Ctrl Message event to detect and respond to user interaction. See the Advanced topic for the list of control IDs and string IDs that are available on this screen.

Tip: You can click on one of the event names above for a full description.