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BUTTON
Guide Section: An EASAP GUI
EASAP Tree: USER INTERFACE > FORM LIST or TABBED PANE LIST > FORM or TABBED PANE
BUTTON creates a button on the USER INTERFACE of an EASAP.
A BUTTON triggers an ACTION in either of two possible ways:
- Add one or more child ACTION's under the BUTTON
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- BUTTON PRESSED > Buttons: must refer to a source BUTTON
- Add child ACTION's under the corresponding ACTION GROUP
An example of a BUTTON is shown in below.
 BUTTON |
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| Optional Parameters: | |
| Label: | Text displayed on button, object references allowed (eg. 'Press Me!' pictured above). |
| Type: | Set if the object should look like a button or a link (default: BUTTON ) |
| Image: | Make the button an image instead. Preserves the same functionality but will appear as the image. Buttons that are images cannot have a Label:. |
| Confirmation if: | Specify a condition for showing a confirmation message before accepting the button click. |
| Confirmation text: | Specify the text to appear in the confirmation window. |
| Show if: | Logical expression, if TRUE then button shown, if FALSE then button NOT shown |
| Enable if: | Logical expression, if TRUE then button enabled, if FALSE then button NOT enabled |
| Style: | A USER INTERFACE STYLE or object reference that controls the visual appearance of this objects background. |
| Tool Tip: | Text to display as a tool tip |
| Tab Index: | Establish an order of preference for <TAB> key navigation (default: 0 ) <TAB> delivers focus to Tab Index: 1 then 2 and continues in ascending numerical order After the highest set Tab Index: value, focus is delivered to Tab Index: 0 Tab Index: -1 will completely exclude this object from <TAB> focus selection |
| Delimiter: | Character to delimit an object reference in Label: (default: % ) |
| Rowspan: | Span vertically across more than one cell in a parent LAYOUT PANEL or SUB PANE with Layout: GRID |
| Colspan: | Span horizontally across more than one cell in a parent LAYOUT PANEL or SUB PANE with Layout: GRID |