Thread: Another Page

Right-elick anywhere and choose Add / Open Page > Add New Page Template. Page 2will now be created, and you can manipulate this any way you please. Here, too, create an action called Page2. Close, and associate that with a Close button like before. To give this page a more dialog-like look, right-elick on the page and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog, change Control Box to False and BorderStyle to FixedDialog.

For the text, right-elick on Page 2 and choose Make Action> DrawText. An Action Data dialog will come up, where you can enter the text you want to draw (under Text around the bottom left). To make sure this text is drawn when Page 2 appears, right-click on the page and choose Assign Actions > AfterShow.Choose



Page2. DrawText in the Actions dialog and hit the Select button-just like before.
To have Page 2 as a dialog box, we need to create the ShowDialog action-right-click on Page 2 and choose Make Action > ShowDialog. We want Page 2 to show up when a button on Page 1 is clicked, so now go back to Page 1. Change the text of the button you had created, to "Press Me!" (or something as tempting). Rightclick on it and choose Assign Actions > Click. In the Actions dialog, choose Page2 . ShowDialog and hit the Select button.

On running the program, you'll see that Page 2 opens when you click on the button in Page 1. Also, you can't do anything in Page 1 without closing Page 2. With something as easy as this at your disposal, just go ahead and start programming. Send us your programs, and if they're good, we'll feature them on the DVD!.