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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:52:47 PDT
From:	driven zen <drivnzen@netfeed.com >
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To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: Buttons (was Beginning formulas)

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Randell Flint wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:48:12 PDT, Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >In <3AE6872E.192B@peterskye.com>, on 04/25/01
> > at 01:13 AM, Peter Skye said:
> >
> >>I want to look at what I'm clicking on, thank you very much. Just
> >
> >Don't ask me, ask someone who can make it so. It's called a feature
> >request and if you request it, that will make at least two requesters :-)
> >
>
> Mesa has the capability to add buttons, with text labels, that execute macros
> (scripts) -- they just aren't called buttons, the're called Text Boxes.
> In fact, ANY graphic (oval text box, rectangle, line) can have a script
> associated with it that is executed when you click it.

The process is simpler in MESA. There's really no point
in importing from Excel.

Thanks,

Mark Henigan
--

(There are actually
> a number of examples of this all throughout the Big Nate example in autoload.m2...
> that's how it moves thru things from page to page and workbook to workbook.)
>
> See Using a Graphic To Execute a Script in the help for details... but here's
> basically what you do:
>
> * Create the script (or macro) as a layer of the workbook (and change the name
> of the layer to be whatever you want it to be). You can make changes to the
> script later, so you don't have to get it all right the first time.
>
> * Select a cell about where you want your button to be. Use Graphics->Create
> to open the Selection Manager to the graphics creation page.
>
> * Pick the type of graphic (Text Box in this case) and enter the name of the
> script layer in the Execute Script field. (The name of the graphic doesn't
> really matter, it will be GraphicNN by default.)
>
> * Click Create to create the "button".
>
> The text on of a text box is the word "Text" by default.
>
> * To modify the text, you need to select the graphic for editing. You CANNOT select
> a graphic just by clicking on it since that is what runs the script. So, instead,
> hold down the CTL key while you click on it.
>
> * When selected, the text of the Text Box appears in the formula bar for editing.
> Just click in the formula bar and change the "Text" to be whatever you want it
> to be. (It's centered and wraps to multiple lines.)
>
> * To resize the "button", just drag the edges while it is selected (or change the
> Height and Width in the Graphic Settings page of the Selection Manager if you
> want a precise size).
>
> * To move the "button", just drag the entire button while it is selected (or
> change the Offset From, X, and Y values on the Graphic Settings page).
>
> * To change the width of the "button" boarder, just increase the Line Width in
> the Graphis Settings while it is selected.
>
> * To change the font and/or color of the text, the "button" background, or the
> border, just drag and drop from the OS/2 font and color palettes onto the graphic
> (while it is selected). (Remember, in OS/2, a color drag changes the background
> color -- or border if dropped there -- CTL+drag changes the text color.)
>
> Randell
>
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