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I create a custom button, and pasted the code below into the left click box. The code was copied from this forum. However, when I click the button, instead of a message box being displayed, the variables are displayed over the button, like in the screen capture shown below. Not sure what I am doing wrong here. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

$var_file = "<curname>";
$var_User = "%USERNAME%";
$var_DATE = "<date>";
msg " $var_User has selected <crlf 2>$var_file<crlf 2>at $var_DATE";

Please read
"Advanced Topics - Scripting - Multi-line Scripts and Multi-Scripts"

Your indentation is wrong

Thank you, that was driving me nuts! So all lines after the first must be indented by at least one space.

One other issue related to the custom buttons, I placed the correctly indented code snippet into the "Test" button shown in the screenshot below. However, I found that after I edited and added the code snippet, I am unable to edit the button again. If I right click on "Test", there is no option to edit it. How can I edit a button which has scrolled off the toolbar like the "Test" button shown in the screenshot?

-Thanks

Hold Ctrl when you right click it

Thanks again!

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-Bernie

highend wrote:Hold Ctrl when you right click it

It still does not let me edit the custom button when I hold the Ctrl key. Tried other key combinations as well. I have an HP Envy laptop with trackpad, and I'm using a two finger tap, which is a right click.

Maybe that's because of this "special click" which is translated to a (software) right click through your touchpad software. It does work with real mouse buttons though

Control-right click also works on laptops with buttons for left and right clicks. Though I think many of the newer laptops don't have those buttons anymore.

klownboy wrote:Control-right click also works on laptops with buttons for left and right clicks. Though I think many of the newer laptops don't have those buttons anymore.

Thanks, I got it to work by using Ctrl then tapping one finger, not two.

highend wrote:Maybe that's because of this "special click" which is translated to a (software) right click through your touchpad software. It does work with real mouse buttons though

Thanks, I got it to work by holding Ctrl then tapping with one finger, not two.