string Element
An element that represents the actual text that
must be customized.
Messages
The param element can be embedded in the text of a string. Different types of strings can be defined in the Messages, User Interface, and Menus sections.
All the strings in this section are classified as error messages. However, some of them are warnings and information messages.
User Interface
The strings in this section represent user interface text.
- Button
- Text inside a command button.
- Check box
- Label describing a control that turns a setting on or off. The setting of an individual check box is independent of other check boxes.
- Control label
- Text that describes the purpose of specific controls, such as a list box or a text box.
- Dialog caption
- Text that is a title or that introduces a dialog box, a message box, or a property sheet.
- Group box label
- Label for a rectangular box, which surrounds a set of similar or related controls.
- Link
- Text of medium length that describes a URL.
- List item label
- Label for a standard list box, which is used to choose a single item or a range of items from the list.
- Pane header
- Caption for a pane.
- Property group
- Label that describes a property group.
- Property name
- Label that describes a property for which the user can select or type a value.
- Radio button
- Label that describes a radio button. The radio button appears in a group of buttons. Only one of them may be selected at a time. When you select one radio button, the others are automatically cleared. Clicking the radio button never initiates an action.
- Status bar
- A form of contextual help that provides status information to the user.
- String
- Introductory text and other read-only text in dialog boxes. This is the default option.
- Tab label
- Short text introducing the controls that belong to the tab.
- Tooltip
- A form of short, contextual help that appears when the user pauses the pointer over a control.
Menus
The strings in this section represent user interface text associated with menus.
- Menu
- Main label for a drop-down menu, which is a collection of menu items or choices.
- Menu item
- Any of the items in a menu.
- Tooltip
- A form of short, contextual help that appears when the user pauses the pointer over a control.
- Status bar
- A form of a contextual help that provides status information to the user.