dlg-variable

The name of the dialog box.

nn 

The ordinal position of the control in the dialog box (starting with 1).

x

The horizontal coordinate of the upper left corner of the control in Dialog Units.

y

The vertical coordinate of the upper left corner of the control in Dialog Units.

width

The width of the control in Dialog Units

height

The height of the control in Dialog Units.

type 

The type of control.

control-name

The name used to identify the control in a user defined callback procedure. The name cannot be more than 30 characters in length and MUST be unique. ( This attribute can only be used with 6.2 or later dialog formats. )

license-string

If you are specifying a COMCONTROL control and it requires a license string, the quoted license string should be placed here. If you have a machine license installed on all computers that run your script, you can place an empty string in this field. The Dialog function will then interrogate the system for the controls license. Use the DEFAULT keyword as a placeholder if the control does not require a license.

progid / classid / moniker

progid: is used with COMCONTROL controls and is the programmatic identifier of an ActiveX , OLE or COM component control that supports integration into an automation client container. It is usually in the form servername.classname.

classid: can be used as alternative to a controls progid. It is a sequence of hexadecimal numbers that must be quoted and enclosed in a curly brace ({}) pair. It is usually in the form "{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}" were each X is a hexadecimal digit.

moniker: Two special monikers can be used in this attribute to implicitly use the WebBrowser Control or MSHTML component provided by Internet Explorer. You can use the WebBrowser control by placing a quoted URL moniker recognized by Internet Explorer in the attribute. The URL can point to either a local file or a document on the Internet. Use the Document control by specifying the programmatic identifier "MSHTML:" in this attribute. You can optionally add valid html text after the colon (:) and the MSHTML document object will parse and render the html in its window.

See the discussion under the topic "Internet Explorer COMCONTROL" for more information.

value

Not applicable to this control.

tab-order

Allows you to specify a control's tab order independently of a control's position or name in the dialog template. Tab-order controls the order in which controls are accessed when the keyboard is used to navigate the dialog. It also influences which control is on top when controls have overlapping positions in the dialog. It can be any positive integer, but each control should have a unique number.

When you navigate through a dialog using the tab key, lower number controls will be given the keyboard focus before higher controls. Likewise, low-numbered overlapping controls will appear on top of higher numbered controls. If you specify the DEFAULT keyword for this attribute or if you give two controls the same tab order, a tab order will be arbitrarily assigned to the control.

Note: The dialog function, under certain circumstances, may change the tab order you specify. The GROUPBOX controls tab order may be adjusted so that it is smaller than any of the controls it contains. In addition, the tab order of the controls inside the GROUPBOX may be adjusted so that they are consecutive.

style 

Allows you to control the initial appearance and behavior of your control. Numbers represent each style and they can be combined, using the bit-wise OR (|) operator, to set multiple styles. The following table lists the style constants and their meanings.

Note: Specifying 0 for this attribute is equivalent to using the DEFAULT keyword and means that the control will exhibit default behavior.

font 

You can include text font, text color and background color information in the appropriate attribute fields of the control definition string. However, many COM based controls ignore this information. As an alternative, many controls provide properties and method to change the appearance and behavior of the control. To use these properties and methods you can use the DialogObject function to obtain a reference to the control in the initialization (0) call to a user defined dialog callback procedure. Once you have the control reference, you can directly access the properties and methods of the control using standard COM dot notation.

textcolor 

You can include text font, text color and background color information in the appropriate attribute fields of the control definition string. However, many COM based controls ignore this information. As an alternative, many controls provide properties and method to change the appearance and behavior of the control. To use these properties and methods you can use the DialogObject function to obtain a reference to the control in the initialization (0) call to a user defined dialog callback procedure. Once you have the control reference, you can directly access the properties and methods of the control using standard COM dot notation.

backgroundcolor 

You can include text font, text color and background color information in the appropriate attribute fields of the control definition string. However, many COM based controls ignore this information. As an alternative, many controls provide properties and method to change the appearance and behavior of the control. To use these properties and methods you can use the DialogObject function to obtain a reference to the control in the initialization (0) call to a user defined dialog callback procedure. Once you have the control reference, you can directly access the properties and methods of the control using standard COM dot notation.