Section Footers

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Sections can have a 'Footer' displayed at the bottom of the Section. This can be made Visible or hidden. It can display a Caption. It can also have a Custom menu accessed via a cog icon in the bottom left hand corner (in addition to the Caption) or a series of Buttons (no Caption). The Custom menu can trigger a Custom action (SHOWDOCUMENT(), call an Inline Delegate or call a Custom delegate script.

Double-click on the Section header or click the cog icon to access the Section Attributes. Scroll down to the Footer sub-section.

Visible

Section footer visible (True | False).

Footer: default Visible is False

Footer: set Visible to True

Query or change the Visible attribute programmatically using Lianja.get("page.section").footervisible.

Caption

Section footer caption.

Footer Caption

The footer caption can also be formatted with HTML.

Footer Caption with HTML formatting

Query or change the Caption attribute programmatically using Lianja.get("page.section").footercaption.

Height

Section footer height

Footer Height

Background color

Section footer background color

Footer Background Color

Foreground color

Section footer foreground color As Section footer background color. Save the Attribute to see the color change as greyed out while in Section Attributes dialog.

Custom menu

Section footer menu contents (comma separated list of values).

Footer Menu

Footer Menu

To run

Footer Menu

If this list starts with #, then the menuitems are displayed as centred buttons.

Footer Menu

Prefix the list with #< or #> to display the buttons aligned left or right respectively.

Footer Menu

Prefix the list with #< or #> to display the buttons aligned left or right respectively.

Footer Menu

Alternatively, prefix the list with + to display the menuitems as horizontally autosized buttons (tablet style buttons).

Query or change the Custom menu attribute programmatically using Lianja.get("page.section").footermenu.

Custom action

Footer Menu: Custom action

Action to perform when a footer menuitem is selected. See SHOWDOCUMENT().

Footer button CSS

Footer Menu: Button CSS style

Footer button CSS style (separate attributes with ; or use app:/filename.css)

Footer button width

Footer Menu: Button width

Footer button width

Custom Delegate: Custom footer menu

The delegate for the footer menu event.

Footer Menu: Custom delegate inline

Can be an inline delegate

Footer Menu: Custom delegate script

Or name of a script.

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// Event delegate for 'custommenu' event
proc employees_section1_custommenu(action)
	do case
	case action = "page2"
		messagebox("You selected page2")
	case action = "page3"
		messagebox("You selected page3")
	otherwise
		messagebox("You selected page4")
	endcase
endproc

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Event delegate for 'custommenu' event
function employees_section1_custommenu(action)
{
	if (action == "page2")
	{
		messagebox("You selected page2");
	}
	else if (action == "page3")
	{
		messagebox("You selected page3");
	}
	else
	{
		messagebox("You selected page4");
	}
};