The buttonType property specifies which buttons are to be displayed in the prompter. Possible values include the following:

Displays the OK button only.

Displays the OK and CANCEL buttons. This is the default.

Displays the RETRY and CANCEL buttons.

Displays the ABORT, RETRY, and IGNORE buttons.

Displays the YES and NO buttons.

Displays the YES, NO, and CANCEL buttons.

The value returned is determined by the button pressed by the user:

The defaultButtonType property specifies which push button is the default push button in the prompter. The following are valid types of default push buttons:

The iconType property specifies the type of icon you want displayed in the prompter. Valid values include the following:

The messageString property specifies the string of characters you want to use as the text of your message.

The partName property specifies the name you want to use to describe the part. For nonvisual parts, this text appears under the icon for the part on the free-form surface.

The name of the part can consist of alphanumeric characters, and must be different from those of all other parts on the layout surface.

If you do not specify a part name, VA Smalltalk generates a unique name based on the class name of the part.

The prompterStyle property specifies the type of dialog you want the prompter to display. Valid values include:

The user must respond to the prompter before interacting with the parent window. The user can still interact with other windows.

The user must respond to the prompter before interacting with any window in the application. The user can still interact with other windows.

The user cannot interact with the windows of any application until responding to the prompter.

The title property specifies the label displayed for the part. For example, the text for a window displays in the title bar, the text for a scale appears next to the scale, the text for an HTML page appears in the title bar of the Web browser, and the text for a report title appears in the report header.