Add Drop-down Button
Adds drop-down buttons on a dashboard and binds functions that iDesktopX already provides. You can set buttons properties like colors, icons, and sizes. When previewing your dashboard, you can click each button to perform the corresponding function.
Operating Illustration
Add function buttons: In Ribbon, click Dash Board tab > Function Button to add a button in the default size to the dashboard.
Properties Settings
- Position: the position and size of a button are adjustable. For specific parameter description, please refer to Common Parameters.
- Border: you can set the colors and effects of buttons. For specific parameter description, please refer to Common Parameter.
- Properties:
- Name: set the button name (or the feature name). It can be empty.
- Icon File: click the Select icon and select an icon (in the format of svg or png) as the feature icon. The size of feature icon keeps its original size.
- Add drop-down items: add items in a drop-down button through the following two ways and modify the name of each item.
- Add: click the Add icon to add an item of the drop-down button. You can modify the name of each item and choose the function you want from the drop-down button in the Link Function column. Or, you can enter the keywords of the function directly to search it. You can use up and down keys to select funtions.
- Pick: click the Pick icon and select the function you want to bind in Ribbon. You can cancel the bound operation with Esc key.
- Transparency: check the box to make the button background transparent.
- Background: if you don't set the button background transparent, you can set the background color of the button.
- Select Background: if you don't set the button background transparent, you can set the color of the button when the mouse hovers on it.
- Font: set the font of text shown on the selected button. The default font is Microsoft Yahei.
- Font Size: set the size of text shown on the selected button. The default size is 30.
- Text Style: set the styles of text shown on the selected button. The application provides two types: Bold, Italic.
- Text Color: set the color of text shown on the seleted button.
- Select Text Color: set the color of text shown on the selected button when the moust hovers on it.
- Custom Control Properties: you can assign values for parameters of your secondary-development features. For example, you customized a feature that can switch maps. You can assign the value of the parameter map. The format is "map: real map name".
