Navigation Button Properties - Active Appearance tab

This field displays the current background color for the button when it is active. Select it to choose another color in the Color palette. Click the color that you want. If the background style is set to Transparent on the General tab, the application does not use this background color. If the background style is set to Gradient on the General tab, select the

Back Color

check box to change the gradient appearance.

This field displays the border color for the button when it is active. Select it to choose another color in the Color palette. Click the color that you want. If Border uses back color is not selected in the General tab, this color appears at runtime.

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

Select a pattern for the button when it is active. 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 button’s back style is transparent or gradient (as specified in the General tab), the pattern is not visible.

This field displays the current pattern color for the button when it is active. Select it to choose another color in the Color palette. Click the color that you want.

Type the text to be displayed for the button when it is active. The text appears on the face of the object to give the operator information about what the object does. If you added an embedded variable to the caption, the embedded variable syntax appears in the Caption field. At runtime, the placeholder is updated with the real-time values of the variables.

Adds an embedded variable to the caption. Click

Insert Variable

and then select the type of variable (numeric, string, or time/date) to be inserted in the caption. In the dialog box, specify the details of the variable. After you have set up the embedded variable, the syntax appears in the Caption field.

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.

This field displays the current text color for the caption. Select it to choose another color in the Color palette. Click the color that you want.

This field displays the current background color for the caption. Select it to choose another color in the Color palette. Click the color that you want. If the caption background style is transparent, the application does not use this caption background color.

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

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. The maximum text length depends on the width of the object and the font size.

Click a button to specify how the caption is to be positioned on the object. If the object is a circle or ellipse, the position is relative to the button’s bounding box.

Select Solid or Transparent from the list to specify the caption’s background style. If you select Transparent, the caption’s background is not filled in and any objects behind it show through.

Select the file name of the graphic image for the button when it is active. The image appears on the face of the object, to give the operator information about what the object does or about the current state. Before you can place an image on the object, you must import the image into your project.

For monochrome images, this field displays the current image foreground color. Select it to choose another color in the Color palette. Click the color that you want.

For monochrome images, this field displays the current image background color. Select it to choose another color. If the image background style is transparent, the application does not use this image background color.

For monochrome images, select this check box if the image is to blink at runtime. The image blinks twice per second.

Select this check box to automatically resize the image to fit the object. If the object is a circle or ellipse, the image is resized to fit in the object’s bounding box, then clipped to fit the object’s shape. If this is not checked, the image is first aligned using the Alignment setting, then, if larger than the object, the image is clipped to fit the object.

Select Solid or Transparent to specify the image’s background style. For color images that are not PNG with Alpha channel, if the Image back style is set to Transparent, any parts of the image that are black will be transparent.

Click a button to specify how the image is to be positioned on the object. If the object is a circle or ellipse, the position is relative to the object’s bounding box.