Visual Elements

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Q: How can I make some buttons or menu items disabled by default?

A: The BUTTON and ITEM tags have the visibility attribute. Setting visibility=
to 0 makes a button or menu item invisible until it is enabled in the options page.
<BUTTON id="btclrcnt" caption="CLEARCOUNT" img="4" command="clearcount" visibility="0" /> 

Q: How can I reload the content of a BANNER tag only in case the user is on my site and there is a state changing which is shown in the BANNER tag. Is there a way to reload the content using javascript?

A: Sure you can have a local.html page that you will display in the banner to contain
 IFRAME referencing your site. Please also pass the URL visited by the user to that
local.html  file:
<BANNER name="Ticker" url="local.html?curl=%url" width="200" id="tb_bnr_uxfYdZMb"/> 
The Javascript inside local.html can extract the URL from the string and depending on
the  contents can referesh the HTML from your server in IFRAME. 

Q: Can I set up to rotate multiple banners ( banner1.htm banner2.htm banner3.htm) in the same space on the toolbar?

A: You can use a local HTML file that you mention in your BANNER, which has to
contain JavaScript used to redirect to different files. 

Q: I'm trying to edit the basis.xml file to contain a list box. Clicking each list item has to redirect to a different site. What are the attributes for the VALUE tag that I can use?

A: You can use the following code: 

 <COMBO id="se_search_option" name="se_search_option" hint="" limit="45" command="goSite"> 
 <WIDTH>100</WIDTH> 
 <VALUE display="Site1">http://URL of site1</VALUE> 
 <VALUE display="Site2">http://URL of site2</VALUE> 
 </COMBO> 
 And the below WEBJUMP command: 
 <WEBJUMP name="goSite" href="%se_search_option"/> 
  

Q: I know that the Option page use id=".." to control the buttons, what will happen if I set 2 or more button with the same id? Will this mean that the chick box for this id will be controlling all the button with the same id?

A: The id has to be unique. But you can use the JavaScript inside your options.html
to  link 2 checkboxes together (and clicking one should trigger another). You can even
hide these checkboxes on the html page but JavaScript to switch them on/off. 

Q: Please tell me whether everyone who installs the same toolbar will be given a unique toolbar id or is there a chance of two or more installations getting the same toolbar id.

A: ToolbarID is unique per installation and will remain the same if the toolbar 
is  updated. 

Q: How can I change the icon used for "word-find" toolbar buttons

A: Word find buttons always use the icon number 1 from icons.bmp file. So if you 
wish to change this icon, just change the icon number 1.