Lotus BeanMachine Reference Guide

The Palette

The Palette contains parts to be used for constructing your applet. BeanMachine comes with a default palette of parts, but you can also add your own parts to the Palette (see Customizing the Palette). To place a part from the Palette into an applet, click on the part's icon in the Palette. This loads the cursor with a part, and changes the cursor to a crosshair. Move the cursor over the Composer and click to drop the part where desired.

There are several categories of parts you can choose from:

Multimedia Category

	Animation	A part for playing a sequence of graphical images
	Audio	A part for playing an audio clip
	Clock	A part for displaying the date and time
	Image	A part for a graphical image
	Nervous Text	A part that displays text and randomly moves the letters around
	Rollover	An image part that can change when the mouse moves over it
	Teletype	A part that displays text one letter at a time with an optional sound
	Text	A part for displaying text
	Ticker Tape	A moving text area part
	Timer	A part that works like a stopwatch

Controls Category

	Button	A button part
	Checkbox	A checkbox part
	Choice	A drop-down list part
	Label	A part for displaying a line of text
	List	A list box part
	Panel	A part that can contain other parts and that has its own layout style
	Text Area	A multi-line text entry area part
	Text Field	A single-line text entry field part

Networking Category

	Database	A part that displays data from a database
	Headline	A part for displaying a scrolling list of text with URL links
	Mail Link	A part that displays the brower's mail dialog
	URL Link	A part that links to another web page