Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
ADM Reference

viewWidget

Views the object or objects identified in the namelist (and their popup buttons). For SmartDataFields, it invokes the viewObject method.

Location: visual.p

Parameters:

INPUT namelist AS CHARACTER

The name of one or more objects, separated by commas.

Returns: LOGICAL

Notes: None

Examples:

The following illustrates the use of this method in 4GL code for use with a graphical user interface:

IF widgetIsTrue("Shipped":U) THEN viewWidget("ShipDate":U).

The following illustrates the use of this method in DHTML code for use with a Web browser:

if (logic.widgetIsTrue(‘myviewv.shipped’)) logic.viewWidget(‘orderviewv.shipdate’);