Overview

Popup Pages provide a mode of sub-navigation for the panel's UI by presenting a set of options that sit on top of a main Page. Popup Pages are similar to Pages in some respects as they are a container for Buttons, they may have up to one address and channel port code assignments, and contain only one state. Otherwise, Popup Pages have many typically Button specific properties, as well as some special properties that apply only to Popup Pages. For example, Popup pages (unlike Pages) can be assigned a border style and border color, as well as left, top, width or height values.

• • Each Popup Page must be uniquely named within its project (name collision checks are case-insensitive).
  • The minimum size for Popup Pages is 15 pixels in height or width.
  • Each Popup Page in the project is represented in its own Design View window.

Use the Properties window to set the available properties for Popup Pages. These include name/description, background color, text, bitmap, icon and sound as well as address port / address codes and channel port / channel code. If you change any of these properties (except the name) your changes will be saved and subsequent page creations will use those settings.

FIG. 56 Popup Pages

Popup Pages can be organized in to Popup Page Groups. Popup Page Groups provide a mechanism to group Popup Pages into mutually exclusive groups for display purposes (see

Creating Popup Page Groups on page 60

).