The Object Inspector shows all properties and property values of the components selected in the Form designer of the active form. The different edit boxes in the Object Inspector list allow you to set a different property value for each component property. In contrast with the Form designer, there can only be one Object inspector pane in the ScriptIDE window.

The Object inspector is automatically updated when another form becomes the active form or when the selection of components in the Form designer changes. At this moment, the list of components and the list of properties will be updated.

Component Selector

At the top of the Object Inspector pane, you can find the component selector drop-down box. The component selector automatically contains a list of all components added to the active form. This list is updated as soon as you add/remove controls. By selecting a control in the component selector, the corresponding control will automatically appear selected in the Form Designer area and all properties concerned will be displayed in the Object inspector. The existing selection will be dropped then. The Component selector shows the name of the component selected on the active form.

If you select multiple components, the number of selected items will be displayed. However, it will not be possible to display all property values in the Object Inspector. There are two possible situations then:

• You have selected multiple components of the same type. The Object Inspector shows all properties, but only the property values of the component that was selected first.
• You have selected multiple components of different types. The Object Inspector only shows the shared properties. In addition, the property values of the component that was selected first will be displayed as well.

Properties Tab

The Properties tab of the Object Inspector shows all properties of the selected control. The properties are sorted alphabetically in the first column. The second column shows the corresponding current property value. You cannot change the property names and you cannot add or delete properties.

Property Value Edit Boxes

You can change the default property value in the second column of the Object Inspector. Click the property value concerned, enter a new value and press ENTER to save your changes.

Events Tab

The second tab of the Object Inspector shows all events that apply to the selected component. You cannot rename/add/remove events. The event value that you specify will be used as the procedure name in the script. By double-clicking an event value, an empty procedure (Sub) will be added to the script and this procedure will be linked to the event. The name of the procedure is auto-generated. The naming convention is as follows: component name + event name without the leading 'On'. For more information please refer to Event support.