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Chapter 4: Properties

This chapter provides summary information about each of the properties that apply to OpenInsight controls.

Each control has a set of properties associated with it that governs attributes of the control's appearance or behavior. Some properties are set when you define the control, while others are defined only at runtime. While you can manipulate most properties through your code at runtime, each time that the application is started the value associated with each property is initialized. The functions Get_Property() and Set_Property() are used to get the value assigned to a particular property, and to set the value associated with a particular property.

In this chapter, properties are arranged in alphabetical order. Each property includes a description, sample usage, and explanation of the usage and values returned by Get_Property() and Set_Property(). Properties designed specifically for use by Lotus Notes developers are labeled with an icon; properties for use with OpenInsight native data only are also noted with an icon.

For more information about properties, refer the Guide to Application Development, which includes information on controls and properties that apply to each.

Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions apply:

Control: Graphical object used in a window or form to process text, or to control processing.

Linked Control: A control that is linked to a data table.

Interactive Control: Any control that can have focus and be controlled by keyboard.

Topics

Which Controls Support Which Properties

Property Shorthand Notation in Window Event Code

User Defined properties

A

ACCELERATOR property

ACCEPTDROPFILES Property

ACCEPTENTER property (Combobox)

ACCEPTENTER property (Editbox)

ACCEPTENTER property (Editline)

ACCEPTTAB property (Editbox)

ACCESSDATA property

ACCESSPOS property

ALIGN property

ALIGN property (Image)

ALLOWFOCUS property (Common)

ALLOWROWDELETE property (EditTable)

ALLOWROWINSERT property (EditTable)

ANCHORBOTTOM property

ANCHORRIGHT property

ARRANGEICONS property

ARRAY property

ARROWKEYS property

ASYNCCURSORPOS property (System)

ASYNCKEYSTATE property (System)

ATRECORD property

AUTOCOMPLETELIST property

AUTOCOMPLETEMODE property

AUTOCOMPLETESOURCE property

AUTOCOMPOSITED property (Window)

AUTOELLIPSES property

AUTOEXEC property (System)

AUTOEXPAND property (PropertyGrid)

AUTOPLAY property (Animate)

AUTOSCALE property

AUTOSCALE property (Image)

AUTOSCROLL property

AUTOSELECT property

AUTOSIZECOL property

AUTOSIZEHEIGHT property

AUTOSIZEWIDTH property

AUTOUNDERLINE property

AUTOUPDATEBUDDY property

B

BACKCOLOR property

BITMAP property

BLOCKEVENTS property (System)

BLOCK_EVENTS property

BORDER property

BUDDY property

BUTTONS property (RadioGroup)

C

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CALALIGN property

CALBACKCOLOR property

CALFONT property

CALFORECOLOR property

CALMONTHBACKCOLOR property

CALTITLEBACKCOLOR property

CALTITLEFORECOLOR property

CALTRAILINGFORECOLOR property

CANCEL property

CANUNDO property

CARETPOS property

CELLPOS property

CENTER property (Animate)

CHARMAP property

CHARMAP property (System)

CHECKBOXES property (Listbox)

CHECKBOX property

CHECKEDLISTTEXT property (Listbox)

CHECKEDLIST property (Listbox)

CHECK property

CHILDWINDOW property (GUI)

CHOOSECOLOR Service

CHOOSEFONT Service

CLICKCHECKONLY property (Checkbox)

CLICKPOS property

CLIENTSIZE property

CLIPNAME property (Animate)

CMDLINE property (System)

COLDATA property

COLHEADERSORTINGMODE property

COLORKEY property (Image)

COLOR property (Colordropdown)

COLUMN property

COLWIDTH property (PropertyGrid)

COMCTLVERSION property (System)

CONFIGFILE property (System)

CONFIGINFO property (System)

CONV property

COUNTER property

COUNTER property (System)

COUNT property (Image)

CTRLMAP property

CUEBANNER property

CURRENTDIR property

CURRENTDIR property (Filesystem)

CURSORPOS property (System)

CURSOR property

CURSOR property (GUI)

CURSOR property (System)

CUSTOMCOLORS property (System)

CUSTOMFORMAT property

D

DATASOURCETYPE property

DEFAULT property

DEFPOSPROP property

DEFPROP property

DELIMCOUNT property (System)

DESCRIPTIONDRAWHTML property (PropertyGrid)

DESIGNMODE Property

DESTROYFLAG property (Window)

DESTROY_FLAG property

DEVMODE property

DEVMODE property (System)

DEVSYSTEM property (System)

DPIAWARE property (System)

DPIMONITOR property (System)

DPISCALING property (Window)

DPI property

DPI property (System)

DPI property (Window)

DRAGBUTTON Property

DRAGCELLPOS Property

DRAGCOPY Property

DRAGFORMATLIST Property

DRAGMOVE Property

DRAGPOS Property

DRAGSELROWCOUNT Property

DRAGSELROWS Property

DRAGSOURCE Property

DRAGSOURCE property (System)

DRAGTEXTSELECTION Property

DRAWHTML property

DRAWTEXT property

DRIVELIST property

DRIVELIST property (Filesystem)

DROPACCEPT Property

DROPCOPY Property

DROPDOWN property

DROPFORMATLIST Property

DROPMOVE Property

DROPRESULT Property

DROPTARGET Property

DROPTARGET property (System)

DROPTYPE Property

DTHANDLE property

DUMMYCAPTION property

DWMANIMATION property (Window)

DWMCOLORS property (System)

E

ECHO property

EDGESTYLE property

EDITMASK property

EDITORHANDLE property (PropertyGrid)

EMPTYTEXT property (PropertyGrid)

ENABLEDDROPSCROLL property

ENABLEDRAGLIST property

ENABLEDRAGROWS property

ENABLEDRAG property

ENABLEDROPEXPAND property

ENABLEDROPLIST property

ENABLEDROP property

ENABLED property

ENABLED property (GUI)

ENABLED property (PropertyGrid)

ENVVARLIST property

ENVVARLIST property (System)

ERRORCOLOR property

EVENROWCOLOR Property

EVENTQUALIFIER property

EXECMETHOD property (Common)

EXITCHARS property

EXITCODE property

EXITCODE property (System)

F

FILENAMES property (Image)

FILENAME property (Image)

FILEOPRERESULT property

FILEOPRESULT property (Filesystem)

FOCUSCELLCOLOR Property

FOCUSCELLFONT property

FOCUSRECTCOLOR Property

FOCUSRECTSTYLE Property

FOCUSRECTWEIGHT Property

FOCUSSTYLES property (System)

FOCUS property

FOCUS property (System)

FONTLIST property

FONTLIST property (System)

FontStructure Attributes property

FONT BY POS message

FONT property

FORECOLOR property

FORMATLIST property (Clipboard)

FORMAT property

G

GETMASKEDCHARSONLY property

GET EVENT Service

Get Property function

GLASSDRAG property

GLASSFRAME property

GLASSMARGINS property

GLYPHALIGN property

GLYPHCOLORKEY property

GLYPHCOUNT property

GLYPHFRAMECOUNT property

GLYPHFRAMENUMBER property

GLYPHOFFSET property

GLYPHORIGIN property

GLYPHSIZE property

GLYPHTRANSLUCENCY property

GLYPH API

GLYPH property

GOTFOCUS_CONTROL property

GOTFOCUS_VALUE property

GRADIENT property

H

HANDLE property

HEADERHEIGHT Property

HELPBUTTON property (Window)

HELPTEXT property

HEXADECIMAL property

HOLD EVENTS property

HORIZONTAL property

HOTBACKCOLOR property

HOTFONT property

HOTFORECOLOR property

HOTTRACK property

HPOSITION property

I

ICON property

ICON property (Window)

IDEALSIZE property

IDLEPROCQUEUE property

IDLEPROCQUEUE property (System)

IDLEPROC property

IDLEPROC property (System)

ID property

IMAGEALIGN property

IMAGECLIP property

IMAGECOLORKEY property

IMAGECOUNT property

IMAGEFRAMECOUNT property

IMAGEFRAMENUMBER property

IMAGENUMBER property

IMAGEOFFSET property

IMAGEORIGIN property

IMAGESIZE property

IMAGESTYLE property

IMAGETRANSLUCENCY property

IMAGE API

IMAGE property

INCREMENT property

INITIALPOSITION property (Window)

INTERACTIVE property

INTERACTIVE property (System)

INTERNALOBJECT property (Common)

INVALUE property

IOOPTIONS property

ITEMSTYLE property

K

KEYSTATE property (System)

L

LABEL property

LIMIT property

LINKCURSOR property

LINKRESULT property

LINK property

LISTTEXT property (Listbox)

LISTX property (PropertyGrid)

LIST EX property

LIST property

LIST property (Listbox)

LIST property (PropertyGrid)

LOGININFO property (System)

M

MARQUEE property

MASKEDTEXT property

MAXIMIZESIZE Property

MAXVALUE property

MDIACTIVE property

MDIFRAME property

MESSAGEFONT property (System)

METRICS property (System)

MINVALUE property

MISC property

MISC property (Common)

MODAL property

MODAL property (System)

MODIFIED property

MODULEFILENAME property (System)

MONITORLIST property

MONITORLIST property (System)

MOUSECAPTURED property (System)

MV property

N

NEXT property

NOACCELTRANSLATION Property

NORMALCOLOR property

NOTIFYPOS property

O

ODDROWCOLOR Property

OPTIONSKEY property (PropertyGrid)

ORIG SIZE property

ORIG STRUCT property

ORIG XXX property

OVERLAYICON property

P

PAGELIST property

PARENTFRAME property (GUI)

PARENT property

PART property

PASSWORDPEEKTIME property

PASSWORDSTYLE property

PAUSEDCOLOR property

POPUP LIMIT property

POPUP property

POSITION property

POS property

PREVFOCUS property

PREVFOCUS property (System)

PREVIOUS property

PREVSELPOS property

PROCESSID property (System)

PROGRESSSTATE property

PROGRESSVALUE property

PROPERTYNAMESX property (PropertyGrid)

PROPERTYNAMES property (PropertyGrid)

Property Indexes

PSSTYLEEX_N property (GUI)

PSSTYLEEX property (GUI)

PSSTYLE_N property (GUI)

PSSTYLE property

PSSTYLE property (GUI)

Q

QBFLIST property

QBFPOS property

QBFSTATUS property

QUERYEND property

QUERYEND property (System)

R

RANGE property

RECEIVER property

RECEIVER property (System)

RECORD property

REDRAW property

REPETITIONS property (Animate)

REPOSTYPE property (Common)

REPOS TYPE property

REQUIRED property

RESIZEALWAYS property (Window)

RESULTS property

ROWDATA property

ROWHEIGHT property (PropertyGrid)

ROWLIMIT Property

ROWSHADE Property

ROWSTRIPE property (PropertyGrid)

RTFTEXT Property

RUNMODE property (System)

RUNWIN Service

S

SAVEWARN property

SAVEWARN property (Window)

SCALEFACTOR property

SCALEUNITS property

SELECTIONSTYLE property (Listbox)

SELECTION property

SELLISTTEXT property (Listbox)

SELLIST property (Listbox)

SELNAME property (PropertyGrid)

SELPOSX property (PropertyGrid)

SELPOS_EX property

SELPOS property

SELPOS property (PropertyGrid)

SERVERNAME property

SERVERNAME property (System)

SETMASKEDCHARSONLY property

Set Property function

SHOWACCELERATORS property (System)

SHOWCATEGORIES property (PropertyGrid)

SHOWDESCRIPTION property (PropertyGrid)

SHOWTEXT property

SHOWTHOUSANDS property

SHOWTOOLTIPS property (PropertyGrid)

SHOWVISITED property

SHUTDOWN property (System)

SIZE property

SIZE property (System)

SMOOTH property

SORTEDCOL property

SORTTRIM property

SPLITBUTTON property

SPLITGLYPHCOLORKEY property

SPLITGLYPHCOUNT property

SPLITGLYPHFRAMECOUNT property

SPLITGLYPHFRAMENUMBER property

SPLITGLYPHOFFSET property

SPLITGLYPHORIGIN property

SPLITGLYPHSIZE property

SPLITGLYPHTRANSLUCENCY property

SPLITGLYPH API

SPLITGLYPH property

SPLITSEPARATOR property

SPLITWIDTH property

STARTFRAME property (Animate)

STATE property

STATUSFONT property (System)

STATUSLINE property

STEP property

STOPFRAME property (Animate)

STYLE_EX_N property

STYLE_N property

STYLE (STYLE_EX) property

SUPPRESSAUTODESTROY property (System)

SYNCTASKBAR

SYSTEMDIR property

SYSTEMDIR property (Filesystem)

System Object

T

TABLE property

TABOUTEXCEED property

TABSTOPS property

TASKBARBUTTON property (Window)

TASKBARID property

TASKBARID property (System)

TEMPDIR property

TEMPDIR property (Filesystem)

TEXTALIGN property

TEXTVAL property

TEXT property

TEXT property (Clipboard)

THEMED property

THEMED property (System)

TIMER property

TIMEZONE property (System)

TOPMOST property (Window)

TOPPOS property

TRACKINGSIZE Property

TRANSLUCENCY property

TRANSPARENT property (Animate)

TYPECLASS property (Common)

TYPES property

TYPES property (System)

TYPE property

TYPE property (Common)

U

UDPLIST Property

UDPLIST property (Common)

UPDOWN property

UTF8 property

UTF8 property (System)

V

VALIDCHARS property

VALID property

VALUES property

VALUES property (PropertyGrid)

VALUES property (TabControl)

VALUES property (TreeListBox)

VALUE property

VALUE property (PropertyGrid)

VERSION property

VERSION property (System)

VERTICAL property

VISIBLE property

VISIBLE property (GUI)

VISIBLE property (System)

VISITEDFORECOLOR property

VPOSITION property

W

WIN64 property (System)

WINCOUNT property (System)

WINDOWGHOSTING property (System)

WINDOWSDIR property

WINDOWSDIR property (Filesystem)

WORDWRAP property

WRAP property

WRITEATRECORD property

X

XLIST property

@ (User-defined) property (Common)