Creating a Popup Message
Sometimes you need to send
a message to
the user. It could be a waiting message issued when a macro is executing, a message instructing how to contact technical support, or an
error warning, etc.
1. Starting Point
This example creates a help button on the screen that alerts the user to contact technical support if there is a problem with the room.
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Drag a button to a blank page.
2. Find the Message Action
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Under the More >
Actions, find the Message action.
3. Drag the Action to the Button
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To have the message pop up when pressing the Help button, drag the message action to the button.
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Edit the button to see the
empty action on the button.
4. View Message Properties
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To show the message
properties, click
the message action in the edit button screen.
Name: Optional name for the action.
Display: Show or hide the message.
Title: Combines with text to tell the user what to do when the action is activated. Title text is
on top and bold.
Text: Combines with the title to tell the user what to do when the action is activated. Text is non-bold and below the title.
5. Enter Message Properties
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Fill in the properties as needed for our application.
6. Set the Duration of the Message
There are two ways to close the
message:
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When the macro ends:
after the button macro is completed, the message
automatically disappears.
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By hiding the message: to remove
the message before the macro has ended,
add another message action that hides the message.
In this application, the message terminates at the end of the macro.
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To extend the macro so the user has time to read the message, add a delay action to the macro and set the delay to 5.0 seconds.
6. Finished
When the user presses the help button, the message pops up for 5 seconds as shown below.
To see the project in action, open
the attached K-Touch backup file.
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