Initial Value

Enter an initial value for the editor. The GUI Designer writes this value to the DEFINE VARIABLE statement for the editor.

Help

Enter a help string for the editor. The GUI Designer displays the help string in the run-time window status bar whenever the editor 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 editor. 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 editor 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 editor 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.

{&List-1}

Select this option to add the editor name to the selected custom list. For example, select the {&List-1} check box to add the editor 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 editor upper left or right corner.

Y

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

Width Pixels

Enter a value for the number of pixel units wide to make the editor.

Height Pixels

Enter a value for the number of pixel units high to make the editor.

Left-Align

Select this option to position the editor label left edge along the column / X position specified.

Right-Align

Select this option to position the editor right edge along the column / X position 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 editor.

Sync With Master

Displays the Sync With Master dialog which allows you to overwrite the current layout with the editor default properties.