The Text class is the most commonly used one for creating gadgets. This is because it not only creates plain labels (also called "static text" in other GUI engines), but also framed read-only text gadgets and textual buttons. In fact MUI has no special class for buttons, a button is just a Text object with a proper frame and background and user input activated. This versatility can have the disadvantage of allowing for creation of style guide nonconforming interfaces. The Text class uses the MUI Text Rendering Engine for text output. It allows for multiline text, using styles (bold, italic), colors and inlined images. These features should be used sparingly to keep user interfaces consistent and comfortable to use. The rendering engine is controlled by inserting escape sequences in the text. Another engine feature is aligning the text inside the object rectangle (left, right, centered). Labels are the simplest form of Text instances. They have no frame and inherit their background from the parent object (neither MUIA_Frame nor MUIA_Background is specified). They use the standard MUI font in most cases, so MUIA_Font does not need to be specified either. An important (and often forgotten) detail is a proper text baseline align when a label is used with some framed gadget also containing text (a String gadget for example). The default MUI behaviour for vertical text positioning is to center it. If the framed gadget uses uneven vertical padding, baselines of the label and the gadget may be unaligned. A special attribute MUIA_FramePhantomHoriz solves this problem. It is specified for a label with a TRUE value. The label also has MUIA_Frame specified with the same frame type as the gadget. Then the label gets an invisible frame of this type (frame horizontal parts to be exact, hence the attribute name) and the text is laid out accordingly. As a result the label and the gadget text are always aligned vertically, assuming they use the same font. The magnified screenshot above illustrates the label align problem. The string gadget uses uneven padding (top padding is 2 pixels, bottom padding is 0 pixels), which causes the text baseline to misalign by 1 pixel shown on the left. The label on the right has been defined with two additional tags:A label can have one character underlined with the MUIA_Text_HiChar attribute. It is used to create a visual hint for a hotkey of a labeled gadget. See Buttons section below for details. A textfield is a read-only framed area showing some (usually changing at runtime) text. The difference between a label and a textfield is that the latter has a frame and a background specified:A text button is an instance of the Text class too. It has more attributes than a plain label however, because it handles user input. MUI has a predefined background and frame for buttons:These attributes also specify a frame and background for the "pressed" state. MUI also has separate font settings for buttons. Forgetting the MUIA_Font attribute for buttons is one of most common errors in MUI design. Many users (and programmers) just have the default font defined for buttons, so the bug is not visible. It is recommended to always test a GUI with some unusual font settings for buttons, so the problem is easily visible. Button text is usually centered, which may be done either by inserting the "\33c" sequence at the start of the button label, or using MUIA_Text_PreParse. After definition of the button appearance it is time to handle user input. The button behaviour is defined by the MUIA_InputMode attribute with three values:Another common bug with MUI buttons is to omit keyboard handling. The mouse is not everything. The first, obligatory step is to enter the button into the window's TAB key cycle chain: Any gadget entered into the chain may be selected by pressing the TAB key (for default MUI keyboard settings). The selected object has a special frame drawn around it. Then it may be activated by some key set in MUI preferences. For buttons the default "pressing" key is the return key. A rule of thumb for cycle chaining:Another keyboard handling feature provided by MUI is hotkeys. A hotkey just activates a button associated to it. Hotkeys have the following features:Note that these attributes take a single char, not a string.