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navigationButtonFontStyle attribute

The navigationButtonFontStyle attribute specifies the font in which the navigation button caption is presented.

Member of

<instruct> <likert> <openended> <sliderTrial> <survey> <surveyPage>

Syntax

/ navigationButtonFontStyle = (name, height, bold, italic, underline, strikeout, quality, characterset)

Parameters

Name Type Description
name expression A string indicating the name of the font. The name can hold several font names separated by commas as a fallback in case the system doesn't support the first font.
height expression Optional. An decimal that specifies the height of the font in points (default), pixels, or percent.
bold boolean Optional. Indicates whether the font should be bold.
italic boolean Optional. Indicates whether the font should be italic.
underline boolean Optional. Indicates whether the font should underlined.
strikeout boolean Optional. Indicates whether the font should appear with a strikeout line.
quality integer Optional. An integer ranging from 1 to 5 indicating the font quality. 5 is the best quality (ClearType).
characterset integer Optional. An integer indicating the character set code.

Remarks

Inquisit provides an easy to use font picker dialog to set this attribute. To use the font picker, 1) move the cursor to where you want to insert the the font attribute, 2) open the Tools menu, and 3) select "Font Wizard". Once you have selected the desired font settings in the Font Wizard dialog, select OK and the font attribute and appropriate settings will automatically be inserted in your script at the cursor location.

Examples

The following sets the button caption font to Arial bold and sets the height to 5% of the screen height:

<survey somesurvey>
/ navigationButtonFontStyle = ("Arial", 10%, true)
/ navigationButtonSize = (10%, 10%)
/ items = ("yada yada yada")
</survey>

The following sets the button caption font for a particular survey page to italic Tahoma font, 25 pixels high:

<surveypage page1>
/ navigationButtonFontStyle = ("Tahoma", 25px, false, true)
/ navigationButtonSize = (250px, 50px)
/ items = ("yada yada yada")
</surveypage>

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