Programming in XPCE/Prolog: Section 4.2

## 4.2 Built-in dialog items

Table 1 provides an overview of the built-in dialog items. The XPCE/Prolog library defines various additional items as Prolog classes. See the file Overview in the library directory.

button | Simple push-button. Executes `<-`message when pressed.
text_item | A text-entry field. Editable or non-editable, built-in type conversion (for example to enter a numerical value), completion using the space-bar if a value-set is provided.
int_item | Like a text_item, but providing properly sized field, buttons for one-up/down, type- and range-checking.
slider | Select numerical value in a range. Handles both integers and floating point values.
menu | Implements various styles of menus with different visual feedback. Realises radio-button, tick-box, combo-box and much more.
menu_bar | Row of pulldown (popup) menus. Normally displayed in a small dialog above the other windows in the frame.
label | Image or textual label. Normally not sensitive to user actions.
list_browser | Shows a list of items. List-browsers have been designed to handle lists with many items. Class browser is a window-based version.
editor | Powerful text-editor. Handles multiple and proportional fonts, text-attributes, fragment marking, etc. Class view is a window based version.
tab | Tagged sub-dialog, that may be combined with other tabs into a tab_stack, realising a tabbed controller-window. Often seen in modern applications to deal with many setting options.
tab_stack | Stack of tab objects.
dialog_group | Group of dialog items, possible with border and label.

Table 1 : Built-in dialog items