Using labels as buttons

Ignition
1

Hi,

I have a question about using labels as buttons in Vision. A colleague of mine suggested that labels shouldn't be used as buttons due to them not acting the same as buttons. I have used this method on multiple different Ignition projects now and I have had no issues.

Does anyone know if this is the case? If so, I will need to change my "label buttons" to momentary buttons. I am reluctant to do so, as I can style labels much better to fit the look and theme of the application. Mainly, I can overlay a label on a rectangle and have the rectangle look like the button with rounded corners, etc.

Thanks

2

Can you give us an idea of what these labels are actually doing? I imagine that a label's mouseClicked event handler is sufficient for a lot of things

3

It is just a mouse clicked event. The background of the rectangle is bound to an expression that changes the colour on hover. Other than that, they are fairly simple.

4

The major difference is that actual buttons have an actionPerformed event that honors enable/disable and security limits. Other events are uncontrolled. (Momentary buttons are another behavior entirely.)