Image List For Button Edit Type Field

Question

By reading the document in Sybook i came to know there is one button edit type. In that it says "An image can be defined for display in place of one of the available button controls. In this situation, the image referenced can be an image list, with each image in the list being a square and the same size".
Image list i want to use because i want to show two different image one for the normal and one for the selected.
By reading this line i came to know that there is image list but i don't know how to assign. In the button column there column for action where we can assign the action, after that there is another column for image there i can assign one one image. I don't know how to assign image list.
Please help me in this regard.
Amitoj
Tags edited by: Michael Appleby

Answer 1

Amitoj,
What platform are you developing for?  I believe you are trying to add dynamic images to a push button on a detail screen?  The Button control on a detail screen has a Button tab.  On the button tab, there is a button image property.  Create a rule here rather than picking a static image.  In the rule, set up your logic any way you require, always returning an image name to be used.  So you could do something like this:
IF
     EQSTR
          MyObject -> Status Property
          Started
START (image)
DEFAULT (image)
The above rule says that if the current object's status property is "Started", use the START image, otherwise use the DEFAULT image.  These image names must be defined as images in your application.
The rule will run and the correct image will be displayed on the button.  Image Lists were used initially on Windows clients to add dynamic images to list rows (not buttons), but this technique is not really used anymore.
Jason Latko - Senior Product Devloper at SAP