IMAGE action attribute

The IMAGE attribute defines the image resource to be displayed for the action.

Syntax 1 (Dialog action handlers and form action defaults):

IMAGE = "resource"

Syntax 2 (Global .4ad action defaults file):

image = "resource"
  1. resource defines the file name, path or URL to the image source.

Usage:

The IMAGE attribute is used to define the image resource for action views such as BUTTON, BUTTONEDIT, or a TOOLBAR button.

For more details about image resource specification, see Providing the image resource.

This action attribute can be specified as action default attribute in a global .4ad file, in the ACTION DEFAULTS section of form files, as dialog action attribute, or as action view attribute.

Example

-- As action handler attribute
ON ACTION print ATTRIBUTES(IMAGE="printer")

-- As action default
ACTION DEFAULTS
  ACTION print (IMAGE="printer")
END

-- In a form buttonedit or button
BUTTONEDIT f001 = FORMONLY.field01, IMAGE = "zoom";
BUTTON b01: open_file, IMAGE = "buttons/fileopen";
BUTTON b02: accept, IMAGE = "http://myserver/images/accept.png";