Working With Properties
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TPDesign4 (v3.2 or higher)
Input Mask Ranges
Input Mask Ranges allow a user to specify the minimum and maximum numeric values for a given field. Only
one range is allowed per field and the use of a range implies numeric entry only.
The following table lists the available input mask ranges, for use with the Input Mask (General) property for
Text Input buttons:
Input Mask Next Field Characters
Input Mask Next Field characters allow the user to specify a list of characters that caused the keyboard to
advance the focus to the next field when pressed instead of inserting the test into the text input area.
The following table lists the available Input Mask Next Field characters, for use with the Input Mask (General)
property for Text Input buttons:
Input Mask Operators
Input Mask Operators change the behavior of the field in various ways.
The following table lists the available Input Mask Operators, for use with the Input Mask (General) property
for Text Input buttons:
Working With Touch Styles and Active Touch
TPD4 supports Active Touch technology, which allows you to control the way buttons behave when pressed in
terms of the shape and border style used. For example, by using transparencies you could create a button that
appears to be round (although the actual shape of the button is rectangular), in which case you may not the
button to respond if the user presses outside of the circular border.
The use of Active Touch is set via the Touch Style button property (in the General tab of the Properties Control
Window). There are three touch styles to choose from:
Active touch: This touch style limits the active touch area to the visible area of the button. Areas of
the button that are totally transparent will not respond to a press. For example, if you created a
totally transparent button with no border and an icon, only the icon would respond to a press.
Similarly, if a transparent button has a visible border but no icon, only the border will respond to a
press. Touching the transparent areas of the button does not active the button.
Bounding box: This touch style forces the panel to respond to a press anywhere within the
rectangular boundaries of the button (regardless of transparencies or border styles).
Pass through: This style allows the user to press "through" one button to press another button
underneath. If there is no other button underneath the pass through button, the user simply presses
the page (with no resulting action).
Input Mask Ranges
[Start Range
] End Range
| Range Separator
Input Mask Next Field Characters
{ Start Next Field List
} End Next Field List
Input Mask Operators
< Causes all characters to be converted to lowercase.
> Causes all characters to be converted to uppercase.
^ Sets the overflow flag for this field.
Active Touch requires total transparency on the button in order to work. To make a
button totally transparent, set the Overall Opacity (state) setting to 0. If Overall
Opacity is set to any other value (for partial transparency), Active Touch will not work.
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