scripting:dialogs:paragraph

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Paragraph Control

Textview control for not editable descriptive text, field labels, links. Support different fonts, sizes, styles etc. Paragraph control example

Properties

Property Default Value Description
id empty id (name) of the script data object associated with control
text empty initial text of the control. Will be taken if no variable is bound (variable in dialog storage with name corresponding to id property)
align stretched Alignment of the control
style none Styles of the paragraph control (can be combined)
font dialog font Font face to be applied
size 8 Size of the font, in logical units
colour default text color Colour of the text
minwidth 0 Minimum width, in characters, of the paragraph control

Styles

Style Description
none Default mode
password Characters are hidden under asterisk symbols (used for password fields)
lowercase Characters are auto converted to lower case
uppercase Characters are auto converted to UPPER case
number Control allows only decimal digits (0-9) to be entered
readonly Control is grayed and displayed text is not editable
multiline Editor allows to show multiline text (height may be controlled with minheight property)
wantreturn Editor accepts Enter keystroke for inserting new line
wordwrap Editor does a word wrap of lines, if it does not fit into control width and horizontal scrolling is disabled
vscroll Control shows vertical scroll bar (in multiline mode only)
hscroll Control shows horizontal scroll bar (in multiline mode only)

Example

paragraph.hejs
var varStorage = new Storage(); 
var dialog_template = 
'@<dialog title="Test Dialog" resizing="both"> \
   <image sys_icon="information"/> \
   <columnbreak/> \
   <paragraph text="Hello, World! This is a really long paragraph in order to show button alignment is centered." align="left"/> \
   <paragraph text="Testing the font" font="MS Shell Dlg 2" size="20" style="bold|underline" colour="#00FF00"/> \
   <paragraph text="Link to &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.hippoedit.com/&quot;&gt;The Link&lt;/A&gt;"/> \
   <group minwidth="75" minheight="23" uniform="true" align="center"> \
   		<button title="&amp;OK" default="true" returnval="ok"/> \
   		<button title="&amp;Cancel" returnval="cancel"/> \
   </group> \
</dialog>@';
Output().writeln("Dialog 4 returns: " + dialog(dialog_template, varStorage));