Button Controls

The following lists the mandatory properties for button controls:

Button control-id"title"x y width height

Property

Description

button

Identifies the control as a button control.

control-id

Control ID number. It must be an integer between 1 and 32767 and be unique within a given top-level window.

"title"

Title of the control, contained in quotation marks.

x

Horizontal position of the upper-left corner of the control in current units.

y

Vertical position of the upper-left corner of the control in current units.

width

Width of the control in current units.

height

Height of the control in current units.

The Resource Properties Index identifies and describes the optional properties for this control.

Backgroundcolor

Clientedge

Disabled

Font

Foregroundcolor

Group

Initialcontents

Invisible

Justification

Longcue

Name

Opaque

Popupmenuid

Raisededge

Shortcue

Title

Example

The following example contains a window with two button controls: the first contains only the mandatory definitions, and the second contains optional settings.

Version "3.0"
Window 1 "Control Window" 0 0 200 100
Begin
Button 1 "OK" 10 10 50 25
Button 2 "Done" 50 10 50 25 Begin
Shortcue "Short Cue"
Longcue "Long Cue"
Font "Arial" 12, Bold, CS_DEFAULT
Backgroundcolor $debabe$
Foregroundcolor $ccffcc$
Clientedge Raisededge
Justification JUSTIFICATION_LEFT
End
End