Button

In LiveCode, a Button object comes in many different styles: Push, square, round buttons, check boxes and radio buttons. In reality, there is only one button control, with many different properties. Which properties are set, will determine which type of Button is displayed. But, its usually easier to just pick the type you want in the first place.

Buttons They are all just different vethrn the rest asions of the same type of obejct, namely buttons.

The radio buttons are a little different and must be grouped. Their status is the hilite property.

Basic Properties[]

Name
IconGravity
Label, the text shown on the selected item.
tool tip
Style (see the slide-show on the right):
1/8
- Push button
- Square button
- round button
- transparent button
- opaque button
- shadow button
- check box
- radio button
- option
- combobox
- popup
- pull down
Style options:
- visible: if it's set false, it's invisible. When an object is invisible use the stack browser to edit it.
- opaque: if it's set false, it has the same color of the background
- show name: if it's set false, the label is not shown
- auto hilite
- shared hilite
shortcut and hint
Focus with keyboard
- Show focus border
Mnemonic
Default button
Disabled
Layer mode
Behavior

Icons & Border[]

Icon (remember to include a button for each icon you want to use)
Hilite Icon: icon when the button is pressed
Disabled Icon: icon when the button is disabled
Visited Icon: icon when the button was pressed at least one time. You can reset a visited button setting the visited property to false
Armed Icon
Hover Icon: when mouse is on the object
Three D: effect of the button
Border: border of the button
Hilite border: special border when pressed
Border width
Shadow: shadow effect of the button
Shadow offset: distance of the shadow from the button

Colors & patterns[]

Here you can set the color of various elements of the button. You can choose a pattern instead of a color.

Custom properties[]

Using Custom properties as an alternative for variables in Livecode. Custom properties are permanent containers for any data assigned to them and are saved as part of the program. Information stored in a custom property is easy to retrieve and to check.

Geometry[]

See Geometry manager

Graphic effects[]

Here yo can activate and mix many effects:

drop shadow
inner shadow
outer glow
inner glow
color overlay

If you activate the drop shadow, you can manipulate all aspects of it (color, opacity, position, etc.) with the sub-menu.

Blending[]

The blending effect is a way to make the object more or less transparent, you can choose between many ways to render the resulting object (arithmetic, subpin, etc.).

You can choose the percentage of blending your object has with the background, from 0 (completely transparent) to 255 (completely opaque) .

Property profiles[]

All the properties of an object are inherited from a master profile, however you can add and change profile. This way all objects will have the same properties, will look the same or act the same.

Size & Position[]

specify the size of the object

fit it to text content

set location using the center of the object or its borders
lock size and position
choose which element is above the others by specifying object layer

Text formatting[]

font type
font size (select one of the sizes shown or enter your own)
font style:
- plain
- bold
- italic
- underlined
- boxed
- boxed 3D
- link
- strike-out
alignment
margins

You can also change all letters to uppercase, lowercase, sentence, or Title using the Change Case button.

All Button properties[]

If there is a missing property, please add it.