Creating Graphical User Interfaces

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 to learn how to use these properties when you program callbacks.

This section covers the following topics:

• Displaying the Property Inspector
• What Properties Do I Need to Set?
• Some Commonly Used Properties
• Setting Properties for Some Specific Components
• Changing a Tag

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Displaying the Property Inspector

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