VA Assist Pro User Guide : VA Assist Pro User Guide : Chapter 24 UI Assistant Parts Toolbar
Chapter 24 UI Assistant Parts Toolbar
P_PARTS.jpg
The Parts page gives you quick and easy access to all of the parts found on the Composition Editor’s palette. As a result, you may hide the palette in order to conserve screen real estate. As all of the common visual parts are directly accessible from this page, you may find this page to be a more convenient mechanism for choosing part types (e.g., you don’t need to switch between categories to access labels, buttons and lists).
The ability to automatically invoke sticky mode via Alt-clicking on any of the buttons means that you can avoid frequent trips to the Sticky checkbox. If the Auto Sticky property is set (via the Setup Page), then all part adding functions will use sticky mode.
In addition to the most common visual parts that are directly accessible from this page, quite a few others are available by resizing the UI Assistant window (in floating mode only).
P_PARTS2.jpg
Selection Tool
 
B_SLTOOL.jpg Selection Tool. Use this button to set the Composition Editor back to selection mode. This will turn off sticky mode if it is on.
Add Part
 
B_ADPAR.jpg Add a part to the Composition Editor. This command opens the standard Add Part dialog.
Right-click for a list of available parts. The list of parts is dynamically determined based on the categories currently available to the Composition Editor.
RC_ADPAR.jpg
Widget Buttons
Most of the commonly used widgets appear on this page. Resize the window to see more buttons.
Alt-click to automatically invoke sticky mode.
Right-click to see a list of subclasses of the selected class (if any).
Buttons
B_BUTTON.jpg Button
B_TOGGLE.jpg Toggle
B_RADIO.jpg Radio Button Set
 
Data Entry Widgets
B_TEXT.jpg Text
B_FTEXT.jpg formatted text Formatted Text
B_MLE.jpg multi line text Multi-line Text
b_label.jpg Label
Lists
B_LSTBOX.jpg List
B_MSLSTB.jpg multiple selection list Multiple Select List
B_DDLIST.jpg dropdown list Drop-down List
B_COMBO.jpg Combo Box
B_SPINBT.jpg spinbutton Spin Button
 
Icon Lists
B_ICNARE.jpg icon area Icon Area
B_ICNLST.jpg icon list Icon List
B_ICNFLO.jp flowed icon list Flowed Icon List
B_ICNTRE.jpg icon tree Icon Tree
 
Table Lists
B_TABLST.jpg table list Table List
B_TABTRE.jpg table tree Table Tree
B_TABCOL.jpg table tree Table Column
 
Canvas
B_SHELL.jpg Shell
B_FORM.jpg Form
B_GRPBOX.jpg Group Box
B_SCRWIN.jpg scrolled window Scrolling Window
 
Canvas
B_PMNTBK.jpg OS/2 notebook Portable OS/2-style Notebook
B_WNNTBK.jpg Windows notebook Portable Windows-style Notebook
B_NTBKPG.jpg notebook page Notebook Page
 
Parts ComboBoxes
C_PARTS.png
The combobox on the right is a list of all of the parts categories in use by the Composition Editor. The default category is “** All **”. The combobox on the right is used to select a part from the selected category. The button on the right loads the cursor with an instance of the selected part. Alt-clicking the button automatically invokes sticky mode.
Right-click on the right-hand combobox for a list of available parts in the selected category.
RC_ADPAR.png
 
Last modified date: 01/20/2026