Local Message Display Properties - General tab

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

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

Select whether the object background is solid or gradient. If you select Gradient, the object's background is filled with a linear gradient color.

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

Select this check box to use the object’s background color for the border of the button. If this is not selected, you can assign a separate color to the border, instead of using the object’s background color.

This field displays the current background color for the object or state. 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. For objects with a line style other than Solid, the background color is used for the spaces between the dots or dashes.

This field displays the border color for the object or state. Click it to select another color. If Border uses back color, is not selected, this color appears at runtime.

This field displays the current pattern color for the object or state. Click it to select another color.

This field displays the current color for the object’s text or line. Click it to select another color.

Select this check box if the message text is to blink at runtime. The message blinks twice per second.

Select the font to use for the caption or message.

Select the font size to use for the caption or message.

Click a letter, or letters, to specify the font style for the caption, if required.

Select this check box if the caption or message is to continue on the next line at the beginning of a new word. If this is not checked, the caption or message continues on the next line whenever the maximum text length is reached, even if this occurs in the middle of a word or number. The maximum text length depends on the width of the object and the font size.

To control where a message begins a new line, use the symbol for a new line, \n, in your messages in the message file.

Click a button to specify how the caption is to be positioned on the object.

Specifies the message file to use with the local message display object. Click the Browse (...) button to the right of the box to select the message file.

This option is available only when the

Use variable message file

check box is cleared.