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(8.D.2.7) DropdownControl

Overview

Dropdown Control

Discussion

A Dropdown Inspector Control sets a variable to the chosen value in the dropdown list. Users provide the dropdown choices using the semicolon delimited list property. .

The modVar property must be set to point to a module variable. See the ParamSet module for more detail on modVar formatting.

Variables

Properties

Name

Type

Default value

Range

Description

modVar

string

none

Unrestricted

The module variable to control, in . format

list

string

item1;item2

Unrestricted

semicolon delimited list of items to display representing values 0 to N-1

value

int

0

0:numItemsInList

The currently selected item index. Zero based

caption

string

dropdown

Unrestricted

A short text string to display above the dropdown

units

string

none

Unrestricted

When not empty, displays units string below the caption

color.text

int

000000

0:1:ffffff

Color of the text

font.name

string

'MS Shell Dlg 2'

Unrestricted

Any available Windows font may be used. All text in the inspector uses the same font

font.size

int

8

6:1:72

Size in points to use for the font. If the font is too large for the space available, the text will be clipped

font.style

string

normal

normal/bold/italic

Available styles are normal italic and bold

scaletext

int

false

0:1:1

When true, text font size scales with inspector size

border

int

1

0:1:1

When false, the surrounding border is turned off

caption.height

int

3

0:1:3

The number of vertical lines to reserve for the caption and units strings. When zero, caption is not displayed

color.bgnd

int

f0f0f0

0:1:ffffff

Color of the inspector background

color.border

int

b4b4b4

0:1:ffffff

Color of the inspector border, if shown

scale

float

1.0

0.5:3.0

Specifies the magnification of all parts of the inspector. Height is computed from scale and other properties and can’t be manually specified

width

int

69

59:1:500

Width in DPI independent units

x

int

none

Unrestricted

Horizontal position of top left in DPI independent units

y

int

none

Unrestricted

Vertical position of top left in DPI independent units