State Draw Order (Z-Order); Working With Sound Files; Importing Sound Files To Your Project - AMX TPDESIGN4 V2.5 Instruction Manual

State Draw Order (Z-Order)

State Draw Order (or "Z-Order") refers to the order in which the various visual elements of a Page,
Popup Page or Button are drawn on the screen.
The element at the bottom of the Z-order is overlapped by all other elements. The bottom of the Z-
order is like the bottom layer in a multi-layer drawing.
By default, the draw order is 1) fill, 2) bitmap,3) icon, 4) text, 5) border.
You can change the draw order via the options in the State Draw Order dialog. Use the State Draw
Order dialog to specify the order in which the elements of a button, page or popup page are drawn.
To change the draw order (for the selected states):
1. Select a button, page or popup page.
2. In the States tab of the Properties Control window, click the Browse button (...) next to Draw
Order to access the State Draw Order dialog.
3. Select an element in the list, and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to move the
element up or down in the list.
4. Repeat with the other elements in the list to rearrange the order as desired.
5. Click OK to close the dialog.
Note that the new draw order is indicated in the Draw Order state property.

Working With Sound Files

TPDesign4 supports WAV and MP3 sound formats.
The primary difference between the two is that MP3 represents a compressed version of a WAV
file. If MP3 files are encoded correctly, you should experience very little (if any) difference in
sound quality. There are many freeware programs available to encode WAV files into MP3's.

Importing Sound Files To Your Project

To import sound files to the Sounds tab of the Resource Manager dialog:
1. Select Panel > Resource Manager (or click the toolbar button) to open the Resource Manager
dialog.
2. Open the Sounds tab.
3. Click the Import button. This invokes the Open dialog.
4. Click the Overwrite resources with duplicate names checkbox to automatically overwrite
any existing sound files that have the same file name as the file selected for import. If this
option is selected, anytime a sound file with a duplicate file name is imported, it will replace
the original file on every button or page that referenced that file name in the Project.
This functionality works in an identical manner for image files.
5. Locate and select the file(s) to import.
6. Click Open to import the files to the Sounds tab.
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