General Properties

The Properties presented in the General tab of the Properties window will depend on the current selection in the active Design View window (Page, Popup Page, Sub-Page, Application window or Button). Some properties also only apply to specific panel types.

General Properties
Allow Dynamic Reordering This option determines whether the Sub-Pages contained within a Scrolling Region can be re-arranged by an end-user (Yes/No, default = No).
Alphabet Scrollbar Use this property to enable/disable the alphabet scrollbar feature for Listview buttons. By default, this property is set to no (disabled).
Anchor Position This property determines how the Sub-Page Sets associated with the selected Sub-Page View button are initially displayed and justified within the Sub-Page View button.
Animation Time (tenths/sec) Use this property to specify the length of time (in tenths of a second) that the page flip animation will use to complete the page flip (default = 0).
Animate Time Down Enter the timer interval used between states as the button animates from the On to the Off state. This value is in 1/100th second increments (default = 2).
Animate Time Up Enter the time interval used between states as the button animates from the Off to the On state. This value is in 1/100th second increments (default = 2).
General Properties (Cont.)
App Parameters Some Applications require or support configuration parameters at startup that must be configured. For example, the browser application may take a home page or startup page parameter so that when the browser is launched it opens to the configured page.
Auto-Repeat Select whether to apply auto-repeat to the button. Auto-repeat causes the button to constantly cycle through its states (Yes/No, default = No).
Border Style To change the Border Style for the selected button, click Border Style, and select the desired style from the drop-down list.
Collapse Direction This setting (None, Left, Right, Up, Down) controls the direction a popup page will collapse when it closes.
Collapse Offset This setting controls the number of seconds before a popup page collapses when it closes.
Description Use this text field to enter a general or functional description for this button.
Disable Touch Scrolling The Disable Touch Scrolling (General property) for Sub-Page View Buttons allows or prevents touch scrolling on a Sub-Page View button. The default is set to "no".
Disabled Indicates how the selected button will be rendered.
Display Type Click to select the display type to be invoked by this Text Input button (single line or multiple lines). The default is single line.
Drag/Drop Type Sets the selected General or Multi-State General button as either "draggable" or as a "drop target" button. By default, this property is set to "none".
Drop Group Click to associate the selected Draggable button with a specific Drop Group. See the

Drag and Drop section on page 167

for details. | | Dynamic Data Source | Use this property to specify the data source to use as the source for content that will be displayed on the selected Listview button: | | Filter Enabled | Use this property to enable/disable the filter (Search) feature on the selected Listview button. By default, this property is set to no (disabled). |

General Properties (Cont.)
Filter Height Use this property to specify the height of the filter entry box for a Listview button (in pixels). The minimum allowed value (and the default setting) is 24 pixels.
Group Use this field to add the selected Popup Page to a specific Popup Page Group.
Height Enter the Height size value (in pixels) to specify the vertical dimensions of the selected button. You can edit these fields to apply specific dimension info for the button.
Hidden Indicates whether or not the selected button is displayed on the panel.
Hide Effect This property allows you to apply a transition effect to the popup page, to be invoked when the popup is closed (hidden).
Hide Effect Time This property allows you to specify the total amount of time it will take to execute the selected Hide effect, measured in 1/10th-second increments.
Hide Effect X/Y Pos Measured in pixels, the Hide Effect X/Y Pos (position) fields allow you to specify the starting point on the page for the selected Slide Hide Effect.
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Input Mask This field allows you to apply a mask to user input on the panel.
Input Type This field allows you select the type of text input that may be displayed on a Text Input button. You may select between alpha-numeric (letters and numbers), numeric (numerals only), telephone (numbers and characters such as "-" and "()"), and date/time (month/day/hour/minute).
Item Height Use this property to specify the item height for the selected Listview button (in pixels).
Left Left/Top - Position values. The Left and Top rows indicate the position of the selected button, in pixels, relative to the upper-left corner of the Design View window.
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Listview Columns Use this property to specify the number of columns to display in the selected Listview button. By default, this value is set to 1. This property provides the ability to present a "grid view" on the Listview button, if desired. The number of columns allowed depends on the size of the Listview button. If the number of columns exceeds the display area of the selected Listview button, the program displays an error message indicating that either the number of columns must be reduced, or the width of the button must be increased to accommodate the desired number of columns.
Listview Components Use this property to specify the combination of the three supported Components (Primary Text, Secondary Text and/or Image) that will be displayed for list item content on the selected Listview button. Click the browse button on the Listview Components (General) property to open the Edit Listview Components dialog. Use this dialog to specify which components (Primary Text, Secondary Text and Image) will be displayed on the selected Listview button.
General Properties (Cont.)
Listview Components The image is left-justified within a six-pixel margin of the top, bottom, and left item boundaries, and is scaled-to-fit within a square region.
General Properties (Cont.)
Listview Components Note: Once the Listview Item Layout has been selected, the placement of the layout components can be adjusted via the Primary Partition (%) and Secondary Partition (%) properties. In these examples, adjustments have been made to both the partition (%) properties and in the case of the vertical layout example, the Item Height (General) property was adjusted to increase the height to allow the display of all three components.
Listview Item Layout Use this property to specify the layout of the components (Primary Text, Secondary Text and Image) specified to display on the list items in the selected Listview button. Listview components are selected via the List View Components (General) property.
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Lock Button Name This option controls how the name of the selected button is managed by the program (Yes/No, default = No).
Max Text Length Use this field to specify the maximum number of characters allowed to be entered via this button. The range is 0-2000 ( default = 0).
Name To give the selected element a specific name other than the default Button/Popup 1, Button/Popup 2, Button/Popup 3 etc., click Name in the Properties window (General tab) to activate the text field, where you can type the new name.
Orientation Select the orientation for the selected Sub-Page View button (Horizontal/Vertical, default = Horizontal).
Password Character Type a single character to be used as the password to access this Text Input button on the panel.
Popup Type This setting (Standard/Sub-Page) sets the Type for the selected Popup Page.
Primary Partition (%) Use this property to specify the relative size of the Primary Partition on the list items displayed on the selected Listview button. The allowed range is 5-95%.
General Properties (Cont.)
Primary Partition (%) (Cont.) With "vertical - image top" selected:
Reset Pos. On Show If this option is turned on, the popup page will always appear at the position established during popup page design each time it is displayed.
Reset View On Show This property determines whether to reset the positioning of the Sub-Pages displayed within a Scrolling Region the next time the Scrolling Region is displayed (Yes/No,
ScrollBar Select whether to display a ScrollBar on this Sub-Page View button (default = no).
General Properties (Cont.)
ScrollBar Offset The ScrollBar Offset (General property) for Sub-Page View Buttons sets the offset position of the ScrollBar relative to the area of the button.
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Secondary Partition (%) Use this property to specify the relative size of the Secondary Partition on the list items displayed on the selected Listview button. The allowed range is 5-95%.
Show Effect This property allows you to apply a transition effect to the popup page, to be invoked when the popup is opened (shown).
Show Effect Time This property allows you to specify the total amount of time it will take to execute the Fade Hide effect, measured in 1/10th-second increments.
General Properties (Cont.)
Show Effect X/Y Pos Measured in pixels, the Show Effect X/Y Pos (position) fields allow you to specify the starting point on the page for the selected Show Effect.
Show Open This setting determines whether a Collapsible Popup Page will initially be shown as open.
Show Sub-Pages Select Yes or No from the drop-down menu (default = Yes).
Slider Color Select a color to apply to the Bargraph slider. Click the browse button (...) to open the Colors dialog.
Slider Name Select the desired visual style for the Bargraph slider from the list of Slider types. There are several slider types available for use with Bargraph buttons:
Spacing (%) Enter an Integer (percentage) value to specify the amount of spacing between Sub-Pages when they are displayed within a Sub-Page View button (0-100, default = 0).
State Count This field indicates the number of states currently associated with the selected button.
Sub-Page Set Click the down arrow to select from a listing of all Sub-Page Sets that have been defined via the Edit Sub- Page Sets dialog (default = None).
Timeout This property allows you to specify the Popup Page Timeout, in 1/10th second increments. Popup Page Timeout specifies how long a popup page will remain open and active without a button press (default = 0).
Top Left/Top - Position values. The Left and Top rows indicate the position of the selected button, in pixels, relative to the upper-left corner of the Design View window.
Touch Map Click the browse button (...) to select an image to use as the Touch Map image, via the Select Resource dialog.
General Properties (Cont.)
Touch Style This selection drop-down allows you to set a "touch style" for the selected button(s). Touch style describes the way buttons behave when pressed, in terms of the shape and border style used. For example, by using transparencies you could create a button that appears to be round (although the actual shape of the button is rectangular), in which case you may not want the button to respond if the user presses outside of the circular border.
Type The Type (button type) defaults to the button type that was set when the button was created. To change a selected button's type, click Type in the Properties window (General tab) to activate the button type drop- down menu, containing a list of all available button types.
Value Direction Click the down arrow to select the orientation of the Bargraph:
Width Enter the Width size value (in pixels) to specify the vertical dimensions of the selected button.
window Type Specifies the type of window displayed for Application windows. Select one of the following:
Z-Order This read-only field indicates the current Z-order setting of the selected button. Note that Z-Order is managed vis the Bitmaps dialog (see Assigning Bitmaps to a Page, Popup Page or Button on page 34).

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