Clarion in general: Popup menu font styles 3
2003-03-15 -- Carl Barnes
Newsgroups: sv.clarion.documentation
On Thu, Mar 13 2003 1:14 pm, Bob Foreman said:
>On Thu, Mar 13 2003, mark goldberg said:
>>Is PROP:FontStyle support in the popup command intentionally not documented?
>>!see comp.lang.clarion 11/16 response to 11/15/2001 thread "Bold an item in
>>a popup"
>>
>Sorry, Mark....I don't go back that far with postings. What exactly does it say?
>
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>>Also, is it possible to have one item have BOTH an icon, and a
>>prop:FontStyle?
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>Perhaps combining both clauses...
>
>POPUP('[' & PROP:Icon & '(MyIco.ICO)][' & PROP:FontStyle & 'Bold]MenuChoice')
>
>it should work.
You combine multiple props inside the [ ] splitting with comma's. There are a
bunch of properties, your Dev team can give you all of them. I only know the
dozen I've discuovered. This is currently NOT supported by the ABC Popup
manager, only Prop:Icon.
In the Docs you may want to note that if you use an Icon you cannot use a Checkmark.
If you're using an ICON then putting [] at the front of non-icon lines helps
with alignment. This can be seen in ABPOPUP and its "NewStyle" flag.
These extened properties are not supported by the ABC POPUP manager. It could
be changed but then it becomes a question of how much they are supported. Does
Mimic read them? Does the Toolbox try to use them? I would say NO to both those
answers. Just parse them into the queue and put them back into the POPUP
string, same as Icon is handled.
Also it's hard to get a good looking POPUP with properties unless you have a
preview tool like CWA. Can take a bunch of compiles.
Example:
EXECUTE POPUP('['& PROP:FontName &'(Arial),'& PROP:FontSize &'(12),'&
PROP:FontStyle &'(4796),'& PROP:FontColor &'('& COLOR:Blue &')]Arial Bold
Italic Blue ' & |
'|['& PROP:Icon &'(~your.ico),'& PROP:FontStyle &'('& Font:Bold &')]Icon Bold
' & |
'|['& PROP:FontColor &'('& COLOR:Blue &'),'& PROP:FillColor &'('&
COLOR:Aqua &'),'& PROP:SelectedColor &'('& COLOR:Red &'),31996(32896)]All 4
colors set ' & |
'|[]A Plain Item' & |
'')
BEGIN ; END ! # 1 Arial Bold Italic Blue
BEGIN ; END ! # 2 Icon Bold
BEGIN ; END ! # 3 All 4 colors set
BEGIN ; END ! # 4 A Plain Item
ELSE
ASSERT(0,'POPUP exceeded')
END !EXECUTE Popup
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