The Properties Window contains the property settings for the selected controls. Properties are attributes of an object, such as its size, caption, and color. You can adjust the appearance of the controls on the form with point and click operation. And you can know simple’s uses of unknown controls.
| Property
| Description |
| Name
| The name of the object so you can call it at runtime |
| BackColor
| This specifies the command button's background color. Click the BackColor's palette down arrow to see a list of common Windows control colours, you must change this to the style property from 0 - standard to 1 - graphical |
| Cancel
| Determines whether the command button gets a Click event if the user presses escape |
| Caption
| Holds the text that appears on the command button. |
| Default
| Determins if the command button responds to an enter keypress even if another control has the focus |
| Enable
| Determines whether the command button is active. Often, you'll change the enable property at runtime with code to prevent the user pressing the button |
| Font
| Produces a Font dialog box in which you can set the caption's font name , style and size. |
| Height
| Positions the height of the object - can be used for down |
| Left
| Positions the left control - can be used for right |
| MousePointer
| If selected to an icon can change the picture of the mouse pointer over that object |
| Picture
| Hold's the name of an icon graphic image so that it appears as a picture instead of a Button for this option to work the graphical tag must be set to 1 |
| Style
| This determins if the Command Button appears as a standard windows dialog box or a graphical image |
| Tab index
| Specifies the order of the command button in tab order |
| Tab Stop
| Whether the object can be tabbed to ( this can be used in labels which have no other function ) |
| Tool Tip Text
| If the mouse is held over the object a brief description can be displayed (for example hold your mouse over one of the above pictures to see this happening |
| Visible
| If you want the user to see the button/label select true other wise just press false |
| Width
| Show the width of the object |
