# Options on the General tab of the Pause Pen Button Properties dialog box

The following table shows the options on the General tab of the Pause Pen Button Properties dialog box.

Options | Descriptions
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Border style | Specifies the type of border for the button. The available options are: None Raised Inset RaisedInset Line If the button shape is circle or ellipse, you can select only Line or None.
Border width | Type the number of pixels for the width of the object’s border. The available value is 1-32,767.
Back style | Specifies the object background. Available options are: Solid. The object’s background is filled with a solid color specified in the Back color option. Transparent. The object’s background is not filled and any objects behind it show through. Gradient. The object's background is filled with a linear gradient color.
Pattern style | Specifies a pattern for the button. The pattern appears on the face of the button. The pattern does not cover the border, caption, or image (if any). If the object’s back style is transparent or gradient, the pattern is invisible.
Shape | Specifies the shape of the button. The available options are: Rectangle Circle Ellipse If the button's shape is a circle or ellipse, the button’s touch area remains a rectangle, and the width, height, and other properties apply to the button's bounding box.
Border uses back color | Select this check box to use the object’s background color for the border of the object. Clear this check box to use the selected Border Color.
Back Color | This box shows the current background color for the object. Click it to select another color. If the background style is transparent, the application does not use this background color.
Border Color | This box shows the border color for the object. Click it to select another color. If Border uses back color is not selected, this color appears at run time.
Pattern Color | Specifies the button's pattern color.
Highlight color | This box shows the current highlight color. Click it to select another color. The object's border, if any, changes to the highlight color when the operator presses the button at run time.
Blink | Select this check box if you want the object’s background to blink at run time. The blink rate is twice per second.
Touch margins | Specifies a touch-insensitive margin inside the button's edges. If the operator presses on the touch-insensitive margin, the button press is not registered.
Horizontal margin | Specifies the number of pixels for the distance inside the left and right edges of the button where the button will not be touch sensitive.
Vertical margin | Specifies the number of pixels for the distance inside the top and bottom edges of the button where the button will not be touch sensitive.
Audio | Specifies whether to sound an internal beeper when the object is pressed. If the computer running the application does not have an internal beeper, the object press does not trigger a beep.
Send press to | Select whether the button press will be sent to whatever object currently has the focus, or to a specific object linked to the button.
Linked object | Specify the object to which the button press will be sent if the Send press to option is Linked object.

## See also

Create a Pause Pen button

Set up general options for a Pause Pen button

Options on the Label tab of a button object's Properties dialog box

Bounding box