You use the autoHilite property to determine or change whether the specified button's hilite property is affected when the button is pressed (that is, when the mouse button is held down while the mouse location is within the button rectablge.) The default value of autoHilite is false.

When autoHilite is true, pressing the button sets the button's hilite property to true, and releasing the buttons sets its hilite property to false. The effect is that the button is momentarily highlighted (displayed in inverse or different color) when the user clicks it, giving visual feedback for the click action. The mouseDown message is sent to the button when the mouse is down and the mouseUp message is sent when the mouse is up.

The family property sets or retrieves the button family for a given button. Setting the hilite of any button in a family to true sets the hilite of all other same-family buttons to false. The default value for family for a new button is 0. Tile and button familes are distinct; so there can be a family n for tile buttons and another family n for background buttons.

You use the hilite property to determine or to change whether the specified button is highlighted (displayed in inverse color). The default value of the hilite property is false.

You use the icon property to determine or to change the icon, if any, that is displayed with the specified button. If a button has no icon, the icon property is 0. An icon is identified by its name.

Icons are small images that exists as resources within your stack. For an icon to be displayed on a button, it must be uploaded to your stack using the "Add Resource" button in the Stack Editor.

You use the showName property to determine or to change whether the name of the specified button (if it has one) is displayed in its rectangle on the screen. The default value for new buttons is true (name is displayed).

The autoSelect property sets or returns whether lines in a locked field highlight automatically in response to a mouseDown event and to dragging or shit-clicking (Such fields are called list fields). Automatic highlighting occurs if autoSelect, lockText, multipleLines and dontWrap are all set to true. AutoSelect is set to false when dontWrap is set to false; dontWrap is set to true when autoSelect is set to true. To learn which lines are selected, get the selectedLine of field.

You use the autoTab property to determine or change whether the specified nonscrolling field will send the tabKey message to the current tile. When the autoTab property is true, pressing Return with the insertion point in the last line of that field movies the insertion point to the next field on that tile.

The normal tabbing order for fields is as follows: if the field you are leaving is a tile, the insertion point moves to the next higher-numbered tile field or the lowest-numbered background field if no higher-numbered tile field exists; if the field you are leaving is a background field if, the insertion point moves to the next higher-numbered background field or to the lowest numbered card field if no higher-numbered background field exists.

You use the dontWrap property to determine or change the dontWrap value for a field in the current stack. When the dontWrap property of a field is set to true, the text in the specified field does not wrap at the boundary of the field. The default value for the dontWrap property is false (wrap at the boundary of the field).

You use the lockText property to prevent or allow editing of text within a field in the current stack. When the pointer is moved over an unlocked field, the pointer changes to an I-beam. Then, you can click the field and edit the text. If the field is locked (lockText is true), the cursor doesn't change , and the text cannot be edited. A locked field also receives the messages mouseDown, mouseStillDown, and mouseUp when you click it. The default value of lockText is false.

The multipleLines property returns or sets whether a user can extend the range of highlighted lines in a list field. When the multipleLines is true, the user can extend highlighted lines either by shift-clicking any point before or after the insertion point in a field or by dragging through text.