The Advanced Properties dialog allows you to to set advanced properties for the selected fill-in.
This dialog includes the following options:
| Initial Value | Enter an initial value for the fill-in. The GUI Designer writes this value to the DEFINE VARIABLE statement for the fill-in. |
| Help | Enter a help string for the fill-in. The GUI Designer displays the help string in the run-time window status bar whenever the fill-in 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 fill-in. 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 | Select this option to write fill-in size and position in character units. The GUI Designer writes the values entered in Column, Row, Width, and Height on the EDITOR Property Sheet in character units using the Size and At phrases in the DEFINE VARIABLE and DEFINE FRAME statements. |
| Pixels | Select this option to express fill-in size and position in pixel units. The GUI Designer writes the values entered in X, Y, Width Pixels, and Height Pixels in pixel units using the Size and At phrases in the DEFINE FRAME statement. |
| Custom Lists | Select this option to add the fill-in name to the selected custom
list. For example, select the {&List-1} check box to add the
fill-in 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 fill-in upper left or right corner. Note: Depends upon
the position setting and whether the fill-in has a label. For
example, if Left-Align is chosen, the value in X refers to the
fill-in upper left corner.
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| Y | Enter a value in pixels from the window top edge where you want
to place the fill-in 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 fill-in upper left corner.
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| Width Pixels | Enter a value for the number of pixel units wide to make the fill-in. |
| Height Pixels | Enter a value for the number of pixel units high to make the fill-in. |
| 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 fill-in. |
| Sync With Master | Displays the Sync With Master dialog which
allows you to overwrite the current layout with the fill-in 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