Properties for dbDataComboForm
View property list in alphabetical order.
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Code_Display_Mode | Specifies whether the list will display the choices' codes, descriptions, or both | dbDataComboForm |
| Default_Value | Used by default_prompt procedure to set the default item upon the cursor's first entering this object | dbDataComboForm |
| Undefined_Display_Mode | Used by find_item to decide what to display when this object is filled from the database with a value that is not found among the values of this object's combo items | dbDataComboForm |
| Undefined_Save_Mode | Used by entry_update to decide what to save when a save is requested with a value in the window that is not among the prompts of this object | dbDataComboForm |
| Undefined_Value | Used for display by find_item and for insertion into the database by entry_update when this item's undefined_display_mode or undefined_save_mode respectively is cb_err_update_blank_value | dbDataComboForm |
Inherited Properties from dbBasicComboForm
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| DEO_Control_Object | Indicates whether the control is a Data Entry Object (DEO) | dbBasicComboForm |
| Error_Message | Text (in addition to that provided with error_number) to be displayed whenever validate_combo_item returns a non-zero value | dbBasicComboForm |
| Error_Number | The number of the error to be reported whenever validate_combo_item returns a non-zero value | dbBasicComboForm |
Inherited Properties from dbBasicComboForm_
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Auto_Clear_DEO_State | If True, this object will clear after a successful save occurs | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Auto_Save_State | Determines if auto save should be performed | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Auto_Top_Panel_State | If true, clearing this object will cause the focus to be given to the first object and item in the current parent-child hierarchy | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Changed_Value | Changes the value property of Item item# to value and sets its item_changed_state to true, as well as the changed_state of this object | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Default_Value | Changes the value property of Item item# to value, but leaves its item_changed_state unchanged | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Deferred_State | Determines if all finds by the object will occur without changing the server's current record | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| DEO_Delegate_Mode | Controls how DEO requests are delegated | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Retain_No_Change_State | Determines if the item_changed_state of items have true or false values | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Server | Identifies the Data Dictionary object which provides database services to this data entry object (DEO) | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Should_Save | Confirms successful request_saves and detects unsuccessful ones to report possible data losses on exit | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Validate_All_Items_State | Determines if all items are being validated | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Validate_Mode | Determines how and when object validation occurs | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Verify_Data_Loss_msg | Specifies the message to use for data loss confirmation | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Verify_Delete_msg | Specifies the message to use for delete confirmation | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Verify_Exit_msg | Specifies which message is sent during an exiting event (when a view is closed) | dbBasicComboForm_ |
| Verify_Save_msg | Specifies the message to use for save confirmation | dbBasicComboForm_ |
Inherited Properties from ComboEntry
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Allow_Blank_State | Determines if a blank value is valid | ComboEntry |
| CapsLock_State | Determines if all text entered to this object from the keyboard will be converted to upper case | ComboEntry |
| Combo_Item_Count | Returns the number of choices in the combo object's list | ComboEntry |
| Combo_Sort_State | Determines if the object will sort its visual list | ComboEntry |
| Combo_Value | Specifies the value of an item in the combo objects data-list | ComboEntry |
| Enabled_State | Determines if an object is enabled or disabled | ComboEntry |
| Explicit_Shadow_State | Indicates if an object is contextually shadowed by an ancestor | ComboEntry |
| Floating_Menu_Object | Identifies the floating context menu for this object | ComboEntry |
| Help_Id | Used to specify an object's context ID | ComboEntry |
| Help_Keyword | Used to specify an object's context keyword | ComboEntry |
| Item_Shadow_State | Determines if an object's item is enabled or disabled | ComboEntry |
| Label | Sets the text for a label or heading for an entry control object | ComboEntry |
| Label_col_offset | The horizontal distance from the object to its label | ComboEntry |
| Label_Color | The background color of the object's label | ComboEntry |
| Label_FontItalics | Determines whether the object's label text is italicized | ComboEntry |
| Label_FontPointHeight | Represents the height of a label object in points. | ComboEntry |
| Label_FontSize | The font size of the object's label | ComboEntry |
| Label_FontUnderline | Determines whether the object's label text is underlined | ComboEntry |
| Label_FontWeight | The font weight of the object's label | ComboEntry |
| Label_Justification_mode | The justification mode for the text within this object's label | ComboEntry |
| Label_Object | Returns the object handle to the object's label | ComboEntry |
| Label_Offset | Returns both the Label_Row_Offset and the Label_Col_Offset | ComboEntry |
| Label_row_offset | The vertical distance from the top edge of the object and its label | ComboEntry |
| Label_TextColor | The text color of the object's label | ComboEntry |
| Label_TypeFace | The type face of the object's label | ComboEntry |
| ListRowCount | Determines the number of rows in a combo form | ComboEntry |
| ListWidth | Detrmines the width of a combo's drop down list | ComboEntry |
| Object_Shadow_State | Replaced by enabled_state, whose boolean logic is the inverse of this property's | ComboEntry |
| pbApplyComboFormHeight | ComboEntry | |
| pbCenterToolTip | Determines if ToolTips are centered, horizontally, with respect to the client area rectangle of the control | ComboEntry |
| phoToolTipController | References the ToolTip controller object used to display this object's ToolTip | ComboEntry |
| psHtmlHelpTopic | Html help page name (e.g. reporting.htm) and optional bookmark. Can be used to locate the proper contextual help page. | ComboEntry |
| psToolTip | Sets ToolTip text for this object | ComboEntry |
| Status_Help | Determines the status text that will be displayed when this object takes the focus | ComboEntry |
| Use_Parent_Status_Help | Determines if parent's status help is used when object status help is empty | ComboEntry |
Inherited Properties from DfBaseComboBoxEntry
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Combo_Data_Object | Specifies the object ID of the internal combo object | DfBaseComboBoxEntry |
Inherited Properties from DfBaseEntry
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Autofind_Item | DfBaseEntry | |
| Base_Item | Defines the starting item number that the DfBaseEntry messages are to work with | DfBaseEntry |
| Bottom_Item | Returns the item number of the last item on the display | DfBaseEntry |
| Bottom_Row | Returns the number of the bottom row on the display of a dbGrid-class object | DfBaseEntry |
| Current_Row | Return the row number of the current_item | DfBaseEntry |
| Data_Field | Identifies the table column from which data is to be stored, retrieved, and cleared | DfBaseEntry |
| Data_File | Identifies the database table that contains the column from which data is to be stored, retrieved, and cleared | DfBaseEntry |
| Displayable_Rows | Returns the number of rows that are visible in the display of a table class object | DfBaseEntry |
| Item_Entry_msg | Sent in response to the item_change or the entering message | DfBaseEntry |
| Item_Exit_msg | Sent in response to the item_change or the exiting message | DfBaseEntry |
| Item_Limit | Defines the number of entry items in the group that the entry messages are to work with | DfBaseEntry |
| Item_Option | Allows you to query or change the format options for entry_items | DfBaseEntry |
| Item_Options | Allows you to query or change the format options for entry_items as a group | DfBaseEntry |
| Item_Validate_msg | Sent in response to the item_change or the exiting message, every time the item is validated | DfBaseEntry |
| Object_Validation | Controls whether the validate messages have any effect | DfBaseEntry |
| Prompt_Object | The object that pops up when the kPrompt key (F4) is pressed/the Popup message is sent | DfBaseEntry |
| Row | Returns the row in a grid that a passed item is located in | DfBaseEntry |
| Row_Count | Returns the number of rows in a dbGrid-class object | DfBaseEntry |
| Top_Row | Returns the row number of the top row on the display | DfBaseEntry |
| Valid_Item | Causes the validation of a single item | DfBaseEntry |
| Zoom_Object | Sets the destination object_id of the zoom popup message to the specified object | DfBaseEntry |
Inherited Properties from DfBaseForm
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Form_Button | Allows you to define and place a button within your form | DfBaseForm |
| Form_Button_Bitmap | Allows you to define the bitmap for a button within your form | DfBaseForm |
| Form_Button_Value | Determines the contents of a form prompt-button | DfBaseForm |
| Form_Button_Window_Handle | Returns the Windows object handle of the prompt button | DfBaseForm |
| Form_Justification_Mode | Determines how data will be displayed | DfBaseForm |
| Form_Margin | Defines the maximum number of characters that can be typed into a data-entry field | DfBaseForm |
| Form_Mask | Provides the token characters for the mask for an entry item | DfBaseForm |
| Masked_Value | Returns a Form or grid value with masking character | DfBaseForm |
| Password_State | Determines if each character of a form's value is masked by an asterisk "*", rather than the characters that are typed | DfBaseForm |
Inherited Properties from DfBaseList
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Auto_Top_Item_State | Determines if the current_item is set to the top_item when the object takes the focus | DfBaseList |
| Aux_Value | Is only used by the system if an object is referenced on the on_item command line | DfBaseList |
| Button_Aspect | A low-level form message that controls the appearance of a form | DfBaseList |
| Changed_State | Set when users change information in the items of the menu | DfBaseList |
| Checkbox_Item_State | Allows any item to become a checkbox-type item | DfBaseList |
| Current_Item | The object that the end user is currently pointing to | DfBaseList |
| Display_Size | Returns the number of windows in the menu | DfBaseList |
| Entry_State | Determines if data can be entered into the control | DfBaseList |
| FontSize | Obsolete Returns/sets the font size of the current font | DfBaseList |
| Form_Bitmap | Places a bitmap named sBitmapName into iItem | DfBaseList |
| Form_Border | Sets the border style of a form region | DfBaseList |
| Form_Column | Controls the horizontal placement (column position) of the form display within the object | DfBaseList |
| Form_Datatype | Defines a Form or Grid cell's data type and masking characteristics | DfBaseList |
| Form_Extended_Style | Sets the extended-window style of form region | DfBaseList |
| Form_FontFormHeight | Obsolete | DfBaseList |
| Form_FontHeight | Obsolete Sets the height of the font in the form display | DfBaseList |
| Form_FontItalics | Obsolete Determines if the current form's font will be italicized without resizing the control | DfBaseList |
| Form_FontPointHeight | Sets the form's FontPointHeight without resizing the control | DfBaseList |
| Form_FontUnderline | Obsolete Determines if the form's font will be underlined without resizing the control | DfBaseList |
| Form_FontWeight | Obsolete Sets the Striking weight of form's font without resizing the control | DfBaseList |
| Form_GuiColumn | Controls the horizontal placement (column position) of the form display within the object in pixels | DfBaseList |
| Form_GuiHeight | Sets the height of the font in the form display in pixels | DfBaseList |
| Form_GuiRow | Controls the vertical placement, in pixel units, of the form display within the object | DfBaseList |
| Form_GuiWidth | Sets the width of the form item in pixels | DfBaseList |
| Form_Height | Sets the height of the font in the form display in logical units | DfBaseList |
| Form_Option | DfBaseList | |
| Form_Options | Sets or gets all of the form_options for a form region | DfBaseList |
| Form_Row | Controls the vertical placement, in logical units, of the form display within the object | DfBaseList |
| Form_Style | Sets the window style for the form region | DfBaseList |
| Form_Typeface | Obsolete Sets the form's Typeface without resizing the control | DfBaseList |
| Form_Width | Sets the width of the form item in logical units (usually dialog units) | DfBaseList |
| Form_Window_Handle | Returns the Windows window handle for the form region | DfBaseList |
| Item_Changed_State | Data entry to, or selection of, an item causes its Item_Changed_State property to become True | DfBaseList |
| Item_Count | Returns the total number of items in the object. | DfBaseList |
| Item_Matching | Searches a menu of items for a matching string value | DfBaseList |
| Line_Size | Returns number of columns of a grid or number windows per line of a menu | DfBaseList |
| Message | Identifies the message that is sent when users press the Enter key on the item | DfBaseList |
| Prototype_Object | DfBaseList | |
| Search_Mode | Determines how users may move the selection cursor to a choice by use of (alphanumeric) keys matching the content of the choice | DfBaseList |
| Select_Count | Maintains the total number of selected items in the menu | DfBaseList |
| Select_Mode | Determines how item-level selections are processed | DfBaseList |
| Select_State | Each item may be selected by setting the select_state of the item | DfBaseList |
| Shadow_State | Determines if item is enabled (not shadowed) | DfBaseList |
| Top_Item | The item that is first in the display window | DfBaseList |
| Value | Gets and sets the data value (content) for an object or item | DfBaseList |
| Wrap_State | Controls the action of the cursor control keys and search_mode ranges during item navigation | DfBaseList |
Inherited Properties from DfBaseControl
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Border_Style | Specifies the border style of this object | DfBaseControl |
Inherited Properties from DfBaseUIWindow
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Mouse_Capture | Causes all DataFlex mouse events to be sent to the object that captures the mouse | DfBaseUIWindow |
| Windows_Override_State | Allows DataFlex to stop the default windows behavior for mouse and keyboard messages | DfBaseUIWindow |
Inherited Properties from DfBaseWindow
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Absolute_GuiOrigin | Returns the screen coordinates of the top left corner of a DataFlex object | DfBaseWindow |
| Bitmap | Displays a bitmap in an object | DfBaseWindow |
| Bitmap_Height | Returns the height of the image contained in the file named by bitmap | DfBaseWindow |
| Bitmap_Style | Specifies the position, size, or shape in which the bitmap image for this object is to be displayed | DfBaseWindow |
| Bitmap_Width | Returns the width of the image contained in the file named by bitmap | DfBaseWindow |
| Client_Size | DfBaseWindow | |
| Color | The background color of the object | DfBaseWindow |
| Container_Handle | Returns the Windows window handle of the DataFlex object's container | DfBaseWindow |
| Extended_Window_Style | Sets the extended window style for the Windows object | DfBaseWindow |
| FontItalics | Determines if current font is to be italicized | DfBaseWindow |
| FontPointHeight | Represents the height of an object in points. Suggested mechanism for getting and setting font heights. | DfBaseWindow |
| FontSize | Obsolete Returns/sets the font size of the current font | DfBaseWindow |
| FontUnderline | Determines if font will be printed with underscores at the base of the character | DfBaseWindow |
| FontWeight | Striking weight of control's font | DfBaseWindow |
| GuiLocation | Determines the position of the object expressed in physical pixels relative to the upper left-hand corner of the parent object's client-area | DfBaseWindow |
| GuiSize | Determines the size (height and width) of the object expressed in physical pixels | DfBaseWindow |
| pbSizeToClientArea | Determines if the object's size is based on the outer window bounding area or the client size area | DfBaseWindow |
| peAnchors | Describes how you want the control to react whenever its container changes size | DfBaseWindow |
| Physical_FontSize | Obsolete Specifies the fontsize in pixels | DfBaseWindow |
| piMaxSize | Determines the limit of the maximum size that a Component can be | DfBaseWindow |
| piMinSize | Determines the limit of the minimum size that a Component can be | DfBaseWindow |
| Text_Extent | Returns the pixel with of the passed TextValue based on the typeface and style of the current object | DfBaseWindow |
| TextColor | The text color of the object | DfBaseWindow |
| Transparent_State | DfBaseWindow | |
| Typeface | The typeface of the selected font | DfBaseWindow |
| Value | Gets and sets the data value for an object/item | DfBaseWindow |
| Window_Handle | Returns the Windows window handle of the DataFlex object | DfBaseWindow |
| Window_Style | Sets the window style for the Windows object | DfBaseWindow |
Inherited Properties from cUIObject
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Active_State | Indicates whether or not the object is activated | cUIObject |
| Attach_Parent_State | Determines whether an object that is activated will be added to the next level of the current focus (false) or the next level of its parent (true) | cUIObject |
| Block_Mouse_State | Determines whether or not the use of the mouse is restricted | cUIObject |
| Client_Area_State | Determines if object is a user interface container for children | cUIObject |
| ContainsFocus | Determines if the container contains the focus | cUIObject |
| Current_Scope | Returns the object_id of the currently active scoping object | cUIObject |
| Dynamic_Update_State | Determines whether or not the image of an object that can be seen will be updated when a change to the object occurs | cUIObject |
| Entry_msg | Hook sent whenever the object is about to receive the focus | cUIObject |
| Error_Text | Gets the text from FLEXERRS.DAT that corresponds to the passed error number | cUIObject |
| Error_Text_Available | Determines if Error Text is available for this error number | cUIObject |
| Exit_msg | Hook sent whenever the object is about to lose the focus | cUIObject |
| Find_Scope | Returns the scoping object of the current object | cUIObject |
| Focus | Returns the ID of the object that currently has the focus | cUIObject |
| Focus_Mode | Determines the conditions under which the object will take the focus | cUIObject |
| Key_Path | Determines the delegation path for on_key key assignments | cUIObject |
| Last_Child | Returns the Object_Id of the last focus child | cUIObject |
| Location | Determines the position of the upper left pixel of the object's window | cUIObject |
| Module_Name | Obsolete Assists in the process of locating context-sensitive help information | cUIObject |
| Next_Focus | Returns the object that is positioned in the focus tree as the next object at the same level as this object | cUIObject |
| Next_Level | Returns the object that is positioned in the focus tree as the first object in the next level | cUIObject |
| Next_Scope | Returns the object that is the next_scope object of the current scope | cUIObject |
| Popup_State | Determines whether the object should respond to the standard Activate message, or via the Popup message | cUIObject |
| Prior_Focus | Returns the object that is positioned in the focus tree as the prior object at the same level as this object | cUIObject |
| Prior_Level | Returns the object that is the root of this object's level in the focus tree | cUIObject |
| Prior_Scope | Returns the object that is the prior_scope object of the current scope | cUIObject |
| Ring_State | Determines whether or not the objects added into the next level of this object are to act as a ring | cUIObject |
| RingParent | Returns the object handle of the object that is its ring parent | cUIObject |
| Scope_Focus | A property of scope objects in the focus tree | cUIObject |
| Scope_State | Determines whether the objects at the next level of this object and beyond, are to be scoped by this object | cUIObject |
| Search_Case | Determines whether searches performed are case-sensitive or not | cUIObject |
| Size | Determines the size of a window in dialog units | cUIObject |
| Skip_State | Determines whether or not the switch and switch_back messages skip over this object during focus movement | cUIObject |
| Visible_State | Determines whether object is visible | cUIObject |
Inherited Properties from cObject
| Name | Description | Defining Class |
|---|---|---|
| Child_Count | Returns the number of child objects the object contains | cObject |
| Delegation_Mode | Determines if and how unknown messages are delegated | cObject |
| Name | Returns the full name of the object including parentage | cObject |
| Object_Id | Returns the object handle of the object, can be used to determine if an object exists | cObject |
| Object_Label | Returns the short name of an object | cObject |
| Parent | Returns the parent of an object | cObject |
| peNeighborhood | Determines how an object and its descendents participate in object neighborhood referencing | cObject |