• Add Button Dialog
• Advanced Buttons
• Anchor Buttons - Advanced Example
• Checkboxes and RadioButtons - Columnar Layout
• Combining Text and Bitmaps on Buttons
• Creating a Button that Calls an Action Script
• Creating a Button that Calls an Xbasic Script
• Creating a Button with a Bitmap
• Creating and Using a Multi-state Button
• Creating Buttons that Run Code
• Creating Buttons the Easy Way
• Dynamic Buttons
• Enabling the X Button to Close
• Menu Style Buttons
• Placing a Button on a Form
• Placing Buttons into Browses
• Putting a Button on the Dialog
• Putting Bitmaps on Buttons
• Putting Table Navigation Buttons on Your Form
• Radio Buttons
• Setting Choices for Multi-State Buttons
• Setting the Button Hot Key
• Setting the Button Width
• Variable Text on a Button
• Web Style Buttons

 

Creating Buttons the Easy Way

Description

The Alpha Anywhere Toolbar designer provides an easy way to create Xdialog buttons without having to remember any syntax. To use the "easy way out", create a new, blank, toolbar. Put a "Custom Button" on the toolbar. Select the button image and style (e.g. bitmap only, or text only, or text and bitmap). Specify the button text (if button style includes text) and the bubble-help.

Next, click the "Toolbar Appearance" tab and check the "Xbasic Tab" check box.

Next, select the "Xbasic View" tab:

Finally, copy the Xdialog code for the button:

<%B=T;T=Send an email message;O={J=C}{I:'$a5_letter'}{LF} Send Email ;%!!script_play_local("")>

You will need to make some modifications to this code because you will want to specify your own event name:

<%B=T;T=Send an email message;O={J=C}{I:'$a5_letter'}{LF} Send Email!event_name>

Limitations

Desktop applications only.

See Also

• Dynamically Changing the Bitmap on a Button