Script Steps Reference

Miscellaneous script steps
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ILEMAKER PRO SCRIPT STEPS REFERENCE 240
Show Custom Dialog
Purpose
Displays a custom message dialog box, with custom text and labels.
Format
Show Custom Dialog [<title>; <message text>; Table1::input field 1;...]
Options
The “Show Custom Dialog” Options dialog box allows you to set the dialog box title, message text,
and buttons, and specify up to three fields to use for input or display.
General options
• Title specifies the title of the custom dialog box. You can enter literal text or click
Specify to create the dialog box title from a calculation.
• Message specifies the message of the dialog box.You can enter literal text or click
Specify to create the message text from a calculation.
• Button Labels specifies how many buttons (up to three) to display in the custom dialog
box and labels for these buttons. If you leave a button label blank, the button does not
appear in the custom dialog box. If you leave all button titles blank, an OK button
displays in the lower-right corner of the custom dialog box. To create a button label
based on a calculation, click Specify and then specify the calculation.
• Commit Data checkboxes pass input from the dialog box to the database according to
the action of each button. If no fields are active, then the data is committed; if a field is
active, then the data is committed when the record is committed.
Input Field options
• Show input field <n> activates an input field.
• Specify selects the field for input. Each input area maps to one field.
• Use password character (*) masks text as it is entered, or as it is displayed from the
database. This option obscures data being input into the custom dialog box or being
displayed, but does not alter the actual data as it is stored in the database.
• Label specifies a field label (the text that will identify this input to the user.) You can
enter literal text or create the label from a calculation.