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The getbutton statement retrieves the coordinates of the last button that was pressed (in global screen co-ordinates).

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Parameters

This statement has four parameters:

top – field or variable that will contain the position of the top edge of the button.

left – field or variable that will contain the position of the left edge of the button.

bottom – field or variable that will contain the position of the bottom edge of the button.

right – field or variable that will contain the position of the right edge of the button.

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Description

This statement retrieves the coordinates of the last button that was pressed (in global screen co-ordinates). It is intended that this statement be used in a procedure that is triggered by a button on a form (or any form object that triggers a procedure). Here is an example that gets the coordinates into four local variables.

local  btop, bleft, bheight, bwidth 
getbutton btop, bleft, bheight, bwidth

Note: For most new applications, the info(“buttonrectangle”) function is more convenient than this statement.

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See Also

• Data Button Object -- is used to create checkboxes and radio buttons.
• Displaying Data in a Grid -- fundamentals of displaying data in a grid (Text List/Matrix).
• draggraybox -- facilitates dragging something around in a form window.
• getinternalbutton -- retrieves the coordinates of the last button that was pressed (in form relative coordinates).
• getlocalbutton -- retrieves the coordinates of the last button that was pressed (in window relative coordinates).
• Image Display Data Buttons -- checkboxes and radio buttons created from custom images.
• Image Display Push Buttons -- push buttons created from custom images.
• info("buttonrectangle") -- returns a rectangle defining the edges of the most recently clicked button.
• Matrix Clicking -- handling clicks in a Matrix Object.
• Popup Menu Button Object -- is used to create popup menus anywhere on a form.
• Progress Indicator Object -- is used to create progress indicators
• Push Button Object -- triggers a procedure when it is pushed.
• Scroll Bar Object -- is used to create scroll bars.
• Segmented Button Object -- is used to created segmented buttons.
• Slider Object -- is used to create sliders and knobs.
• Stepper Object -- is used to create numeric steppers for use with Text Editor objects.
• Tab Panel Buttons and Selection -- button options for a Tab Panel Object.
• Tab Panel Object -- switchable tab panels.
• Text List Appearance -- customizing the appearance of a Text List Object.
• Text List Object -- displaying a grid of text.
• Web Browser Object -- is used to display web pages from within a Panorama form.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	No Change	Carried over from Panorama 6.0.