Macro buttons on a notebook page

I have placed floating buttons on notebook pages in the past, and assigned 
macros to those buttons.

I wanted to do the same to a notebook this am, but couldn't remember the 
path to do so. But I was able to copy a button from another notebook, and 
change all its properties to run the special macro in the new notebook.

And, using the macro code below, I know I can create a floating button, and 
set its properties quite readily by right clicking on it.

{FLOATCREATE "Button", A:A1, 720, 0, A:B2, 720, 360, "Bt1"}

I would also expect that such a button could be created via finding an 
applicable QP menu item, or is that not correct?

Can someone refresh my memory on this please.

Ron Hirsch 

Ron Hirsch wrote:
> I have placed floating buttons on notebook pages in the past, and assigned

> macros to those buttons.
> 
> I wanted to do the same to a notebook this am, but couldn't remember the 
> path to do so. But I was able to copy a button from another notebook, and 
> change all its properties to run the special macro in the new notebook.
> 
> And, using the macro code below, I know I can create a floating button, and

> set its properties quite readily by right clicking on it.
> 
> {FLOATCREATE "Button", A:A1, 720, 0, A:B2, 720, 360,
"Bt1"}
> 
> I would also expect that such a button could be created via finding an 
> applicable QP menu item, or is that not correct?
> 
> Can someone refresh my memory on this please.

Insert-Quickbutton

Cheers,
Uli

Hi Uli,

Thanks for the reply. I had already been down down that path, but didn't see 
anything that looked useful under "INSERT".

So I looked again, but I still didn't see it. So then I expanded all the 
items under INSERT which showed the small arrowhead. I didn't know what to 
expect under "Form Control", but there was a "push button"
shown there, 
which did the job.

So, the path in QP12 is INSERT>FORM CONTROL>PUSH BUTTON.If you have it 
directly under INSERT, possibly you are using a different version of QP.

Thanks again.,

Ron





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Ron Hirsch wrote:
> I have placed floating buttons on notebook pages in the past, and assigned
> macros to those buttons.
>
> I wanted to do the same to a notebook this am, but couldn't remember the
> path to do so. But I was able to copy a button from another notebook, and
> change all its properties to run the special macro in the new notebook.
>
> And, using the macro code below, I know I can create a floating button, 
> and
> set its properties quite readily by right clicking on it.
>
> {FLOATCREATE "Button", A:A1, 720, 0, A:B2, 720, 360,
"Bt1"}
>
> I would also expect that such a button could be created via finding an
> applicable QP menu item, or is that not correct?
>
> Can someone refresh my memory on this please.

Insert-Quickbutton

Cheers,
Uli

Ron Hirsch wrote:
> So, the path in QP12 is INSERT>FORM CONTROL>PUSH BUTTON.If you have
it 
> directly under INSERT, possibly you are using a different version of QP.

Yes, my version is QP8.  In v8, a pushbutton is the only form control that can 
be inserted in a general area of the notebook, hence it's listed as the only 
insertable "form control".  All other form controls are confined to
dialog 
boxes.  That restriction seems to have been lifted in later versions.

Cheers,
Uli

I create it in the macro sometimes but if I am in a hurry, I use the 
Drawing Tools toolbar button.  This button shows the last one used so in 
that way, it is like the QuickSum button.

I cover programming some of this in my qp macros book on my web site.