Specifications

3 Laying Out GUIs and Setting Properties
3-40
Setting Component Properties — The Property Inspector
The Property Inspector enables you to set the properties of the components in
your layout. It provides a list of all settable properties and displays the current
value. Each property in the list is associated with an editing device that is
appropriate for the values accepted by the particular property. For example, a
color picker to change the
BackgroundColor, a pop-up menu to set FontAngle,
and a text field to specify the
Callback string.
See “Programming Callbacks for GUI Components” on page 4-8 to learn how to
use these properties when you program callbacks.
This section covers the following topics:
• “Displaying the Property Inspector” on page 3-40
• “What Properties Do I Need to Set?” on page 3-41
• “Some Commonly Used Properties” on page 3-42
• “Setting Properties for Some Specific Components” on page 3-43
• “Changing a Tag” on page 3-53
Displaying the Property Inspector
You can display the Property Inspector by any of the following actions:
• Double-clicking on a component in the Layout Editor
• Selecting
Property Inspector in the View menu
• Right-clicking on a component and selecting
Inspect Properties from the
context menu
This displays the Property Inspector, as shown in the following figure.