The Advanced Properties dialog allows you to set advanced properties for the selected combo box.
This dialog includes the following options:
| Initial Value | Enter an initial value for the combo box. The GUI Designer writes this value to the DEFINE VARIABLE statement for the combo box. |
| Help | Enter a help string for the combo box. The GUI Designer displays the help string in the run-time window status bar whenever the combo box has input focus. By default the AppBuilder uses help you define here unless you are using a database variable that has help defined in the schema. |
| Private Data | Enter any private data about the combo box. Private data is an annotation containing any character data that you can attach to an object. This annotation is only informational and not used by the code. The GUI Designer reads and writes private data as comments in the Run-time Attribute and AppBuilder Settings section of procedure files. |
| Characters | Choose to write combo box size and position in character units. The AppBuilder writes the values entered in Column, Row, Width, and Height on the COMBO-BOX Property Sheet in character units using the Size and At phrases in the DEFINE VARIABLE and DEFINE FRAME statements. |
| Pixels | Choose to express combo box size and position in pixel units. The AppBuilder writes the values entered in X, Y, Width Pixels, and Height Pixels in pixel units using the Size and At phrases in the DEFINE VARIABLE and DEFINE FRAME statements. |
| Custom Lists | Select this option to add the combo box name to the selected
custom list. For example, select the {&List-1} check box to add
the combo box name to custom list &List-2. One of six user-defined, alphabetical lists of space-delimited object names represented by the preprocessor names (&List-1, &List-2, &List-3,&List-4, &List-5, &List-6). You can use custom lists in ABL code whenever you need to represent object names, as in the following example: ENABLE ALL EXCEPT {&LIST-1} WITH FRAME {&FRAME-NAME}. HIDE {&LIST-2} WITH FRAME {&FRAME-NAME}. The GUI Designer adds an object name to a custom list whenever you activate one of the list toggles on the object's Advanced Property Sheet. Objects that are cut or deleted from a procedure file are automatically removed from the appropriate list. |
| X | Enter a value in pixels from the window left edge where you want
to place the combo box upper left or right corner. Note: Depends upon the position setting. For example, if Left-Align
is chosen, the value in X refers to the combo box upper left
corner.
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| Y | Enter a value in pixels from the window top edge where you want
to place the combo box upper left or right corner. Note: Depends upon the position setting. For example, if Left-Align
is chosen, the value in Y refers to the combo box upper left
corner.
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| Width Pixels | Enter a value for the number of pixel units wide to make the combo box. |
| Height Pixels | Enter a value for the number of pixel units high to make the combo box. |
| Left Align | Select this option to position the fill-in left edge (or label left edge) along the column / X position specified. |
| Colon-Align | Select this option to position the fill-in label colon (:) along the column / X position specified. (If there is no label, then the AppBuilder aligns the fill-in as if it had a label.) |
| Right-Align | Select this option to position the fill-in right edge along the column position / X specified. |
| Advanced Settings | This section allows you to select advanced run-time attributes and other ABL related options. |
| Current Layout | Displays the current layout used to display the combo box. |
| Sync With Master | Displays the Sync With Master dialog which
allows you to overwrite the current layout with the combo box
default properties. Note: The Sync With
Master option is enabled if you have defined a
master layout.
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For more information, see Property Sheet dialogs