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.

Y

Enter a value in pixels from the window top edge where you want to place the combo box upper left or right corner.

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.