how to make a button with both a picture and text

[tmalone]

Is there a trick to making a button with BOTH a picture AND text? Seems like a common way to display a button.

I can imagine that I can take the picture and add text to the picture, but that will not scale very well, etc.

Todd Malone
Siemens HMI CoC USA

[Gertjan van Schijndel]

You can use this code to add text to your image button.

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PUSH_BUTTON.buttonType = BT_PIXMAP_TEXT';
PUSH_BUTTON.text = "your text";

Optionally you can add this code to place the text below the image.

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PUSH_BUTTON.textPosition = "TEXT_BELOW_PIXMAP";

[tmalone]

Thanks to the forum for this easy solution. Maybe we can document this in the help for other people!!! This seems like a common visualization technique that people would like to use.

Todd Malone
HMI CoC USA

[leoknipp]

Hello,

in the online-help for 3.12 the example for "buttonType" describes how BT_PIXMAP_TEXT can be used. The information how the text can be set is missing.
I've already reported it to our documentation group.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist