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Button View

A button view supports displaying a button on a screen.

General Information

A button view is defined with a percent (%) and the characters BT, followed by the view number. For example: %BT1

See MCI for general information on how to use views and common configuration properties available for them.

Properties

Property	Description
`text`	Sets the text to display on the button
`textStyle`	Sets the standard (non-focus) text style. See Text Styles in MCI
`focusTextStyle`	Sets focus text style. See Text Styles in MCI
`width`	Sets the width of a view to display one or more columns horizontally (default 15)
`focus`	If set to `true`, establishes initial focus
`submit`	If set to `true` any `accept` action upon this view will submit the encompassing form
`argName`	Sets the argument name for this selection in the form
`justify`	Sets the justification of each item in the list. Options: left (default), right, center
`fillChar`	Specifies a character to fill extra space longer than the text length. Defaults to an empty space
`textOverflow`	If the button text cannot be displayed due to `width`, set overflow characters. See Text Overflow below

Text Overflow

The textOverflow option is used to specify what happens when a text string is too long to fit in the width defined.

If textOverflow is not specified at all, a button can become wider than the width if needed to display the text value.

Setting textOverflow to an empty string textOverflow: "" will cause the item to be truncated if necessary without any characters displayed

Otherwise, setting textOverflow to one or more characters will truncate the value if necessary and display those characters at the end. i.e. textOverflow: ...

Example

Configuration fragment (expand to view)

BT1: {
  submit: true
  justify: center
  argName: btnSelect
  width: 17
  focusTextStyle: upper
  text: Centered button
}

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