Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
ADM Reference

Action properties for toolbar objects

There are a number of action properties that you use to specify actions for the toolbar. All of these properties can be read and some of them can be set using assign. Action properties are class-level properties, and as a result, changing an action property using assignAction<Property> affects all toolbars that are initialized after the change.

Table 6–1 lists and provides a brief description of the action properties for toolbar objects.

Table 6–1: Action properties for toolbar objects

Action property	Description	Read	Write	Data type
Accelerator	Accelerator string, if any, for the specified action.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
AccessType	Access type, if any, for some action.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
AlternateImageRule	TRUE if able to successfully assign some value to the AlternateImageRule for some action.	No	Yes	CHARACTER
Caption	Caption for some action, or the empty string if there is no caption defined.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
Category	Category for the action identified in the argument.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Children	Comma-separated list of all children of a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
ControlType	Control-type for the action identified in the argument.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
CreateEvent	Creates an event for the specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Description	Value for the specified action.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
Disabled	Value of actionDisabled. TRUE if the action identified in the argument has been disabled.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
DisableRule	Flag indicating whether or not a value can be assigned to DisableRule. TRUE if a value can be assigned	No	Yes	CHARACTER
EnableRule	The ImageEnableRule for a given action as stored in the repository.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
EnableRulex	Query string for the specified argument. Valid values are reset, add, copy, delete, save, cancel, first, prev, next, and last	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Event	Identifies the event to publish on Default-action of the browse. This property defines the persistent trigger that runs defaultAction and also subscribes the source-procedure.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
Groups	Identifies the action groups specified by Instance Properties. Instance Properties list the ADM instance properties of the selected SmartObject. See the "InstanceProperties" section for more information.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
HideRule	Value of HideRule for the action supplied as the argument.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
HideRuleX	A string value depending on the argument. The empty string is returned if the argument is not valid. Valid values are update, txtTableioOk, and txtTableioCancel	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Image	Value for ActionImage	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
ImageAlternate	Value actionImageAlternate	Yes	No	CHARACTER
ImageAlternateRule	ImageAlternateRule for a given action as stored in the repository. The rules are evaluated in ruleStateChanges	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
InitCode	Value of InitCode.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
IsMenu	Flag determines whether or not an action is Menu. TRUE if the action is Menu. Actions defined as a menu are considered to be a constant part of the toolbar and are not selectable. This means that the action is always available. The action needs to be added to a toolbar with createToolbar or insertMenu(). It does not appear as a selectable action in the instance property dialog even if actionIsParent returns a TRUE status.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
IsParent	Indicates whether or not an action is a parent. TRUE if the identified action is a parent.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Label	Button label for the action button.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
Link	Link value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
LogicalObjectName	LogicalObjectName value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Name	Name value for a specified action.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
OnChoose	OnChoose value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Order	Associates an integer order number with an action.	No	Yes	CHARACTER
Parameter	RunParameter value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Parent	Parent value for a specified action	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
PhysicalObjectName	PhysicalObjectName value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Refresh	Flag indicating whether or not the specified action can be refreshed. TRUE if the specified action can be refreshed.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
RunAttribute	RunAttribute value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
SecondImage	Image2 value for a specified action. TRUE if able to assign a new value to Image2 for some action.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
SecuredToken	SecurityToken value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
SubstituteProperty	SubstituteProperty value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER
Tooltip	Value depending on the value of TranslatedActionTooltip for a specified action. The values that might be returned are: TranslatedActionMLabel, TranslatedActionLabel, or Tooltip. TRUE if able to assign a new value to Tooltip for a specified action.	Yes	Yes	CHARACTER
Type	Type value for a specified action.	Yes	No	CHARACTER