What I am trying to do should be simple, but it has us stumped.

I'm attempting to do two things with checkboxes - 1 - Programmatically making them visible/invisible and - 2 - changing the text of the checkbox.

(In the following "CHECK_1" is the name of the 1st check box)

I have tried the statement

X=SET_PROPERTY("CHECK_1","TEXT","Hi there")

with no results.

For the visible/invisible I have tried

XX=SET_PROPERTY("CHECK_1", "VISIBLE", 1)

with no results.

I have even tried to get the current property of CHECK_1 by using

XXX=GET_PROPERTY("CHECK_1", "ENABLED")

with no results.

Can anyone tell me how to do what should be a simple procedure. It has to be a simple thing to cause this much trouble for us.

There has to be a way to obtain properties from/for a check box.

Thanks for all input.

Andy,

You aren't really looking at 'CHECK_1' are you? You are looking at @Window:".CHECK_1" right?

DSig

Andy,

All controls need the fully qualified name in order for you to make programmatic references to them. The syntax is:

Window.Control

Typically, you usually use the system variable @Window rather than hardcode it because multiple instance windows add an "*n" to distinguish each window running on the desktop. The n is just a number that changes with each instance. Therefore a typical Set_Property statement might look like this:

rv=Set_Property(@Window:".CHECK_1", "VISIBLE", 0) ; * This hides it

Hope that helps,

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions

Thanks Don - I brand new at this along with the rest of the staff and full qualification wasn't even mentioned. Like I said it was a simple problem to cause this much trouble.

Thanks DSig - I brand new at this and so is the rest of the staff. Full qualification wasn't even mentioned. Knew it had to be something simple to cause this much trouble.

No problem .. keep asking the questions

DSig

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