Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Programming Interfaces

Text widgets

The text widget displays textual data without the decorations native to your windowing system. This means that data displays more compactly, so more iterations fit in a single display or printed page.

If you are working with fields or variables that use the fill-in field as the default data widget, then the USE-TEXT option of the frame phrase quickly converts the fill-in fields to text widgets. Here is an example:

DEFINE FRAME Frame1 sports.Customer.Name WITH DOWN USE-TEXT CENTERED THREE-D.

If the default data widget is anything other than a fill-in field or text widget, you need to use the VIEW-AS TEXT option of the format phrase on each widget to convert the widget to a text widget. Here is an example:

DEFINE VARIABLE Bal-due AS LOGICAL LABEL "Balance Due?" VIEW-AS TOGGLE-BOX. DEFINE FRAME Frame1 sports.Customer.Name /* default is a fill-in field */ Bal-due VIEW-AS TEXT /* default is a toggle box */ WITH DOWN USE-TEXT CENTERED THREE-D.

Remember that the default data representation for a field comes from the schema of the database, while the default for a variable comes from the DEFINE VARIABLE statement.