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Options on the General tab of the Logout Button Properties dialog box

The following table shows the options on the General tab of the Logout Button Properties dialog box.

Options

Descriptions

Appearance

Specify the object's appearance in this area.

Border style

Select a border style for the object.

If the object shape is circle or ellipse, the available border styles are None and Line.

Border width

Type the number of pixels for the width of the object’s border.

Back style

Specifies the object background. Available options are:

  • Solid. The object’s background is filled with a solid color specified in the Back color option.
  • Transparent. The object’s background is not filled and any objects behind it show through.
  • Gradient. The object's background is filled with a linear gradient color.

     

Pattern style

Select a pattern for the object. The pattern appears on the face of the object. The pattern does not cover the object’s border, caption, or image (if any are defined for the object). If the object’s back style is transparent or gradient, the pattern is not visible.

Shape

Select the shape of the object. If the object shape is circle or ellipse, the application applies properties such as size and position by measuring in relation to the object’s bounding box.

Border uses back color

Select this check box to use the object’s background color for the border of the object.

Clear this check box to use the selected Border Color.

Back color

This box shows the current background color for the object. Click it to select another color.

If the background style is transparent, the application does not use this background color.

If the background style is gradient, click it to bring up the Gradient Fill dialog box to configure the gradient fill.

Border color

This box shows the border color for the object. Click it to select another color.

If Border uses back color is not selected, this color appears at run time.

Pattern color

This box shows the current pattern color for the object. Click it to select another color.

Highlight color

This box shows the current highlight color. Click it to select another color.

The object's border, if any, changes to the highlight color when the operator presses the button at run time.

Blink

Select this check box if you want the object’s background to blink at run time. The blink rate is twice per second.

If a pattern style is selected, the pattern also blinks.

Display settings

Choose whether a display will be shown when the logout button is pressed. If so, specify the display, and choose whether placeholders will be replaced by tag values from a parameter file or from a parameter list.

Show display on logout

Check this box if you want a display to be shown when the logout button is pressed.

Display

Specify the display to be shown when the logout button is pressed. Click the Browse button to open the Component Browser and select from the list of shows in the application.

Parameter file

Select this option if the display's run-time parameter values will be provided by a parameter file. Click the Browse button (...) to open the Component Browser and select the parameter file to run when the button object is pressed. The list contains all of the parameter files in the project.

Parameter list

Select this option if the display's run-time parameter values will be provided by a parameter list. Click the Browse button to open the Tag Browser and select the tag or tags to add to the list.

Touch margins

You can specify a touch-insensitive margin inside the button’s edges. If the operator presses on the touch-insensitive margin, the button press is not registered.

Horizontal margin

Specifies the number of pixels for the distance inside the left and right edges of the button where the button will not be touch sensitive.

Vertical margin

Type the number of pixels for the vertical touch margin. The vertical margin is along the button’s top and bottom edges.

Other

 

Audio

Select this check box to sound an internal beeper when the object is pressed.

If the computer running the project does not have an internal beeper, the object press does not trigger a beep.

See also

bounding box

Configuring the gradient fill

Create Logout buttons

Set up a caption and image for a button

Set up general properties for a Logout button