Button/Menu label, description, tags and sequences

yonder · November 17, 2023, 3:00am

<#ffffff>	Foreground color
<kbd>		Outlined key drawing
<b>			Bold
<i>			Italic
<u>			Underline
\n			Newline
\t			Tab

<%sp:2>		Horizontal spacing (2 pixels)
<%vsp:2>	Vertical spacing (2 pixels)

Few questions.

I suspect there is a way to set background color for buttons with a tag. If so, how?
Edit:<font bgcol="#cccccc"></font> This is limited to the font background and not the whole button.
Is the three-button tooltip that displays the mouse icons shown with one of these tags?
Any other tags etc missing from the list above you can share?

Thanks!

Reference for <%ddbi:xxx> (DOpus v13.14)
Edit: Unfortunately I didn't include <%ddbi:0> it appears to be the same as <%ddbi:75>
Changing ddbi to ddbg will give you black and white version of icons.

Leo · November 17, 2023, 2:45pm

Some things to play with...

Keep in mind none of this is documented/supported, so things could change/break. It's just stuff we needed in one place or another.

Easiest way to play with things is in button labels, since you can see the results as soon as you type.

<%error> <%update> <%oned:4> <%oned:3> <%ddbi:5> <%ddbi:155>
<%tbim:rename> <%tbim:makedir> <%fdbi:8> <%fdbi:12>
<%winlogo> <%bulb:1> <%bulb:2> <%bulb:3>
<%weblink> <%windowlink> <%menulink> <%manlink>
<%bullet> <%arrow> <%arrowu> <%arrowd> <%arrowl>
<%stars:3> 
<%mouse> <%mousel> <%mouser> <%mousem>
<%checkbox> <%checkbox:0> <%checkbox:2>

<nowrap> ... </nowrap> prevents new lines, especially useful if you want one of those icons at the start or end of a word.

<fixed>Hello</fixed> uses a monospace font.

<%bg:75^100^50^#0000ff^#00aa00^#ffffff^#003333^#ffffff>

Value, Total, Width, Color1, Color2, Color3 (or "no"), BackColor (or "no"), TextColor (or "no"), Gradient, Frame, Line, Value1, Value2

abr · November 17, 2023, 4:23pm

Nice, but still very cryptic. There should be a color picker for the colors. For example, i would like to change the colors starting with light green (plenty of space) to red (critical), and also change the background color to something lighter. Only a suggestion.

yonder · November 17, 2023, 4:58pm

Wow, a progress bar can be placed in a button label. Wasn't expecting that one. Was hoping for a way to set the background color of a button conditionally with evaluator. Thanks for taking the time and sharing!

aussieboykie · November 17, 2023, 10:20pm

Are these useful icons/images somehow accessible from a script? Perhaps using DOpus.Loadimage?
I am particularly interested in stars:0 through stars:5.

Jon · November 17, 2023, 10:26pm

They're not available as an image but you can use a markup text control to show them in a dialog using the HTML.

errante · November 18, 2023, 6:30am

@Jon any chance to use those icons in a button from a script?

Jon · November 18, 2023, 6:41am

No, but markup text controls can have clickable links in them which might help?

yonder · November 24, 2023, 9:43pm

Added the missing <u>underline</u> tag to the list of my original post.

errante · December 23, 2023, 2:11am

Any way to insert in a markup control the frame boxes that can be placed in the status bar?

I was looking at the possibilities that these new types of controls open up. They look good!!!
An example of what I want to use these frames for:

Here I'm using <kbd> for the frames, but you can see that they end up overlapping, plus if I want to use icons for

and

they end up splitting like this:

Also, there's no way to change the markup control background?

Leo · December 23, 2023, 4:42pm

I don't think there is a way around any of those at the moment. We might be able to do some of them after the initial release.

yonder · January 6, 2024, 9:03pm

Process Explorer has a 'Strings' tab, I searched and found...

<%sp:2>		Horizontal spacing (2 pixels)
<%vsp:2>	Vertical spacing (2 pixels)

errante · January 30, 2024, 3:05pm

Hello
I'm trying to use the following as a label or description:

EXPAND=top Ctrl
COLLAPSE ALL Ctrl+Shift
SMART <%mousel>

Using:

EXPAND=top\t<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>\nCOLLAPSE ALL\t<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>\nSMART\t<%mousel>

but it doesn't work, only shows EXPAND=top.
Any idea why?

Leo · January 30, 2024, 4:36pm

I don't think you can use the markup in button descriptions, and button labels can't be multi-line.

errante · March 15, 2025, 1:50am

Hi. How about now?

It would be nice to have for markup controls the ability to use some type of frame that supports both icons and text. <kbd> doesn't.

yonder · March 28, 2025, 5:56am

Added reference image for the icon index of <%ddbi:xxx>