Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
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Viewing a dynamic Browse

You can also open a design window for a dynamic Browse through the Open Object tool.

To access the design window:

Choose the Open Object button , and select DynBrow (Dynamic SmartDataBrowser) in the Type combo box, as shown:



Note: The AppBuilder retained the Module filter on the ds-OE module. The filtering remains until you change it or exit the session.
Double-click armcufullb, the generated browse for the Customer table. The design window for the dynamic Browse appears. Unlike the design window for a nonvisual object like an SDO, the design window for the dynamic Browse allows you to change its appearance, as shown:



Double-click inside the window to bring up its property sheet, as shown:



You can choose the Fields button to edit the field list or specify instance attributes like labels, width, and format. The dynamic objects of each class use common code to create an object from Repository data. If you change that common code, you would change the behavior of all objects of that class. To customize the behavior of a specific object, you can define a Custom Super Procedure and associate the procedure with the object.

In the Folder Window to Launch field, you can enter the name of a default logical container to launch when the user double-clicks on a row in the browse. This is normally a maintenance window for the table. Later, you will specify a launch container when you put the browse into a window.

Close the property sheet and then the design window.

You have now created the building blocks for the sample application. In the next chapter, you use these objects to build the application windows.