Text and Buttons Tab

The Text and Buttons tab contains the following options:

• Title Expression and Message Expression —The text the step displays in the Configure Message Popup Step dialog box. Use these controls to specify literal strings or string expressions TestStand evaluates at run time. Use the Font/Color Selection button to specify the font for the message text and the background color of the panel.
• Button Label Expressions —There are six buttons available in this section. If you do not specify a label for a button, the button does not appear in the Message Popup dialog box. You must specify text for at least one button. You can enter a double underscore character before the letter you want to use as a shortcut key, for example, __OK enables the <Alt-O> shortcut, and E__xit enables the <Alt-X> shortcut. Use the Font/Color Selection button to specify the font for the label text and the background color of the button.
• Button Options —The buttons TestStand associates with various default behaviors of dialog boxes.
  • Default Button —Specifies which button, if any, uses <Enter> as the shortcut key.
  • Cancel Button —Specifies which button, if any, uses <Esc> as the shortcut key.
  • Active Control —Specifies one of the six buttons or the input string as the initially active control.
  • Timeout Button —Specifies which message box button activates automatically after a timeout period expires.
  • Time To Wait (sec) —The timeout period in seconds. An example use for this option is to create a Message Popup step that displays a notification message which automatically dismisses itself after a short delay, in case an operator is not present to acknowledge the message.