Controls

Controls

User dialog boxes consist of controls such as buttons, entry fields, selection lists, or graphics. You an also integrate ActiveX controls in user dialog boxes to use dialog box elements from other programs. Take the controls from the control bar and adjust the position and size in the workspace. You can edit some of the control properties, such as button labels, in the workspace. You can make other settings for the selected controls in the Properties window. 

The controls respond to various events, for example, to mouse clicks. When the event occurs, the user dialog box calls the associated event procedure, which you program in VBS, for example, to hide controls or to block controls.

Use DIAdem variables to connect controls to DIAdem so that you can preset the control or process the values the control returns.  To initialize controls, you preset the variable that is assigned to a control before you open the user dialog box, or you assign a value to the control in the EventInitialize event.

Click here to view the structure of the controls that are available in the dialog editor.

The subordinate topics contained in the tree on the contents tab of the Help describe all the controls that you can use in a user dialog box.