Search Applet Appearance Parameters
Geometry parameters set the format (position, size, font, color) of the search applet’s visual components. The following table shows all available geometry properties:
| Geom. Property | Description |
label (alias: desc) |
The string label, if any, of the component. See also "Setting Choice Component Values." |
color |
The foreground color. |
bgcolor |
The background color. |
font |
The font name to be used for a label. Font name must be an available system font. |
fontsize |
The font size in points for the label. |
fontstyle |
The font style for the label. Allowed values are plain, bold and italic. |
width, height |
The width and height of the component. Valid for layout 0 only. |
x, y |
The position of the component. Valid for layout 0 only. |
All geometry parameters have simple format:
geom.<component>.<property>=<value>
where <component> is name of the applet's component, <property> is name of the property, and <value> is the property value you want to apply.
For example:
geom.list.bgcolor=LightGray geom.list.fontsize=14
The following figures show all available components in both simple and "search by field" applets.
SearchApplet.class components:
| Component |
Name
|
| 1 | main_panel |
| 2 | search_in |
| 3 | collectionchoice |
| 4 | qbox |
| 5 | list |
| 6 | query_label |
| 7 | search_button |
| 8 | stop_button |
| 9 | newwin_box |
| 10 | show_button |
| 11 | maxhits_choice |
| 12 | maxhits_label |
| 13 | message_label |
| 14 | description |
FieldedSearchApplet.class components:
| Component |
Name
|
| 1 | main_panel |
| 2 | search_in |
| 3 | collectionchoice |
| 4 | qbox |
| 5 | list |
| 6 | label1 |
| 7 | search_button |
| 8 | stop_button |
| 9 | newwin_box |
| 10 | show_button |
| 11 | maxhits_choice |
| 12 | maxhits_label |
| 13 | message_label |
| 14 | description |
| 15 | listheader |
| 16 | field_choice |
| 17 | clear_button |
| 18 | more_button |
| 19 | fewer_button |
| 20 | contains_choice |
| 21 | and_or_choice |
QuestAgent recognizes the following colors (names are not case sensitive): black, blue, cyan, darkGray, gray, green, lightGray, magenta, orange, pink, red, yellow, and white.
All other colors can be represented in hexadecimal notation. Using the red-green-blue (RGB) color model, each color is expressed as a two digit hexadecimal value, for example, 000000 is black, FFFFFF is white.
Using PaintShop Pro (or another paint program) you can determine the hexadecimal value of any color.
Setting Choice Component Values
Values of choice components, also known as combo boxes, can be set using label geometry parameter in the following manner:
geom.<component>.label=value 1|value 2|...
Examples:
geom.maxhits_choice.label=200|100|50 geom.contains_choice.label=contains|doesn't contain