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Create hotspot buttons on the fly using DXL

Bryce Berry
08.10.2004
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In R6, there have been some great improvements in the accessibility of rich text fields and the various items that can exist within them (for example, tables and doc links) through LotusScript, but hotspot buttons are not one of them.

However, using DXL, you can create a hotspot button dynamically and add it to a rich text field on the fly. In this example, the user selects a number of entries from a database library, and buttons to open up each database are created in a new memo.

The code within the buttons is created when a temporary document is processed and imported, each button including the Replica ID for the individual database. The function of the buttons is not as important as the fact that each button was created from scratch.

NOTE: Similar code can be used for cre...

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ating other design elements on the fly. The easiest way to learn the DXL format is to use the DXL Viewer under Tools in Designer.

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