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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
<lastedited date="2005-07-25T15:40:12">FPE: Deleted screenshot. Cleaned.</lastedited>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">You can set the properties of control that you add to a dialog. For example, you can change the color, name, and size of a button that you added. You can change most control properties when you create or edit a dialog. However, you can only change some properties at runtime.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">To change the properties of a control in design mode, right-click the control, and then choose <emph>Properties</emph>.</paragraph>
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