Radio Buttons Screen

The Radio 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 radio buttons.

Bottom:

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

Radio Buttons

ID

The control IDs of each radio button on the current screen.

Label

The text label of each radio button on the current screen.

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

Add ( )

Opens the Radio Button Properties dialog where you can add a new radio button to the current screen.

Remove ( )

Remove the currently selected radio button from the screen.

Edit ( )

Opens the Radio Button Properties dialog where you can edit the properties of the currently selected radio button.

Up ( )

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

Down ( )

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

Options

Number of columns:

The number of radio button columns you want to show. The maximum number of columns is 4.

Distribute:

The layout you want to have for the radio buttons. Choose from:

Vertical

Distribute the radio buttons vertically from top to bottom.

Horizontal

Distribute the radio buttons horizontally from left to right.

Default selection

The radio button you want selected by default.

Store result in session variable:

The session variable you want to store the selected radio button control ID in.

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 Radio 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.