Property reference

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This article contains Property Reference information for making property calls in the USoft Action Language.

Property Reference

In the USoft Action Language, to set a Background Color property to 'red’, you need to make a call of this type:

MyPersonsWindow.background( red )

To do that, you need to know the internal property name of the property you want to set or get. In the example, 'background’ is the internal property name.

In some cases, you also need to know what are allowed values that you can set a property to.

Internal property names

This table allows you to lookup internal property names on the basis of the property name as displayed in the Property Inspector tool of USoft Windows Designer.

Windows Designer property name	Internal property name
Action	callback
Actions at Startup	exe
Adjust Change	adaptChangeCallback
Alignment	alignment
Allow  Neighbor	allowNeighbour
Allow Open Query	allowOpenQuery
Alternative Input Format	alternateInputFormat
Auto-commit	autoCommit
Auto-Tab	automaticTab
Auto-Resize	resize
Background Color	background
Border Color	borderColor
Border Type	borderType
Border Width	borderWidth
Buffer Height	bufferHeight
Button Type	focusType
Caption	caption
Chart Size (% Of Field)	percOfWindow
Check Count Query	checkCountQuery
Check List	checkEnumsExclusive
Child Nodes	childTypes
Client	client
Client Edge	clientEdge
Column Alignment	columnAlignment
Column Manager Class	columnManagerClass
Context Help	contextHelp
Create on Demand	onDemandCreation
Current Line Color	cursorLineColor
Data Alignment	justify
Data Length	dataLengt
Default Bind	defaultBind
Default Value	defValue
Deletable	deletable
Detail Joined Columns	joinColumnsInDetail
Dialog Startup Actions	startUp
Dsplay All Subtype Indicators	displaySubtypeIndicators
Display Class	displayClass
Display Foreign Key	displayForeignKey
Display Length	displayLength
Display Text	echo
Display Type	fDatatype
Displayed	displayed
Double-click Action	acceptCallback
Echo	echo
Edit action	editaction
Edit Mode	editType
Expand Tree	fullExpand
Expansion Level	expandLevel
Extra Width for Label	labelExtraWidth
Fast Open	resident
Fast-Open Priority	residentPriority
Fix Column on Display	fixed
Fixed Length	fixedLength
Floor On Minimum	floorOnMinimum
Foreground Bitmap	bitmap
Foreign Key Colour	foreignKeyColor
Generate List	generateEnums
Group	group
Group Border Title	groupTitle
Group Border Title Justify	groupTitleJustify
Height	height
Height of Internal Buffer	bufferHeight
Help File	helpFile
Help Popup	helpPopup
Help Topic ID	contextId
Highlight Current Field	highlightCursorField
Highlight Current Record	highlightCursorLine
Highlight Thickness	highlightThickness
Horizontal Cell Margin	cellMarginHorizontal
Horizontal Distance	horizDistance
Horizontal Scrollbar	scrollHorizontal
Horizontal Spacing	spacingHorizontal
Iconic	iconic
Image	icon
Implement Scrollbar	scroll
Include Subtype Presentations	showSubtypes
Initial Value	value
Input Allowed	inputAllowed
Insertable	insertable
Internal Height	internalHeight
Internal Width	internalWidth
IO Format	ioformat
Joined Columns	columns
Label	label
Label Position	justify
Label Rotation	labelRotation
Label Type	dataLabelType
Line Color	lineColor
Line Style	lineStyle
Lock Parent On Sequence	lockParentOnSeqno
Lookup action	lookupaction
Mandatory	mandatory
Max Character Width	useMaxCharWidth
Max Height	maxHeight
Max No of Records per Fetch	maxRows
Max Width	maxWidth
Maximize Button	maximizeBox
Maximized	maximize
Maximum No of Resident Windows	maxResidents
MDI Child	mdiChild
Menu Page	menuPage
Minimize Button	minimizeBox
Minimized	minimize
Minimum Height	height
Minimum Width	width
Mnemonic	mnemonic
Modal	modal
Mouse Pointer Shape	cursor
No Action	noAction
No of Decimals	lengthAfterPeriod
No of Records Displayed	displayHeight
No of Records Displayed (secondary info boxes)	displayHeightType
Node-specific Menus	useTypeMenu
(NULL) Prompt	nullPrompt
Number of Columns in Updates	numberOfUpdateColumns
Object Name	objectName
On Change	displayChangedCallback
On Database Error	rdbmsErrorCallback
On Empty Window	onEmptyWindow
Open Only Once	openOnlyOnce
Optimize Joined Column Fetch	joinedColumnsInMain
Oracle ROWID	hasRowid
Order By	orderby
Orientation	orientation
Overlay Condition	overlayCondition
Overlay Image	selectionOverlay
Page Title	groupTitle
Pattern	backgroundPixmap
Popup Menu Page	columnMenu
Position	seqno
Post-change (columns)	postChangeCallback
Post-change (info boxes)	preLeaveRecordCallback
Post-close	postCloseCallback
Post-create	createRecordCallback
Post-delete	postDeleteCallback
Post-edit	postEditCallback
Post-fetch	postFetchCallback
Post-insert	postInsertCallback
Post-leave	leaveFieldCallback
Post-open	postStartupCallback
Post-rollback	postRollbackCallback
Post-update	postUpdateCallback
Pre-close	preCloseCallback
Pre-commit	preCommitCallback
Pre-delete	preDeleteCallback
Pre-exit Validation	preExitCallbacklist
Pre-field-entry	enterFieldCallback
Pre-insert Validation	preInsertCallback
Pre-record-entry	preRecordCallback
Pre-update Validation	preUpdateCallback
Primary Key Color	primaryKeyColor
Primary Key Font	primaryKeyFont
Prompt	prompt
Prompt For Edit	menuEditPrompt
Prompt For Fixed	menuFixedPrompt
Prompt For Lookup	menuLookupPrompt
Query Allowed	queryAllowed
Query Mandatory	queryMandatory
Query Some Mandatory	querySomeMandatory
Range Maximum	rangeHigh
Range Minimum	rangeLow
Reflect Updates	updateNotifyActive
Refresh Changed Records	refreshRow
Related Column	foreignColumn
Related Windows For Menu	relatedWindowsForMenu
Relationships	joinReferences
Resize Child	allowShellResize
Root Nodes	topName
Round Off Monetary Values	roundOffMoney
Show Icons	useBitmap
Show Message Numbers	showMessageNumbers
Show Root Lines	linesAtRoot
Single Selection	useSingleSelection
Sizable	thickFrame
Sort Alphabetically	sort
SQL Query	query
SQL Statement	sql
Startup Actions	startUp
Static Edge	staticEdge
Subtype action	subtypeaction
Subtype Presentations	subtypePresentations
Synchronize Lookup	synchronizeLookup
System Menu	sysMenu
Tab Order	tabSeqno
Text Color	foreground
Text Font	font
Tick Mark Frequency	tickMarkFrequency
Tick Mark Position	tickMarkPosition
Title	title
Tool Window	toolWindow
Topmost	topmost
Underlying Query	sql
Uniform Cell Width	colWidth
Unit Lines Primary Axis	linesPrimAxis
Unit Lines Secondary Axis	linesSecAxis
Updatable	updatable
Updatable Only if Null	updatableIfNull
Uppercase	uppercase
Use Static Tables	useStaticTables
Value List	enums
Value List Prompts	enumPrompts
Values to Query	sql
Vertical Cell Margin	cellMarginVertical
Vertical Distance	vertDistance
Vertical Scrollbar	scrollVertical
Vertical Spacing	spacingVertical
View	viewStyle
Virtual Color	virtualColor
WHERE Clause	whereClause
Width	width
Window Edge	windowEdge
X Position	x
Y Position	y
Yes Action	yesAction

Allowed values of properties

This table allows you to lookup what are allowed values that you can set a property to.

The 2  leftmost columns identify properties and values as displayed in USoft Windows Designer. The rightmost column provides the internal value name that you need to use in Action Language calls.

Property	Value	Internal value
(All Yes/No properties)	Yes	Y
	No	N
Alignment	Left or Top	B
	Centered	C
	Right or Bottom	E
	Justified	J
	Workarea	W
Border Type	None	0
	Normal	1
	Group	2
	Raised	3
	Shadow	4
	Sunken	5
	Single Raised	6
	Double Raised	7
	Single Sunken	8
	Double Sunken	9
Button Type	Apply	ButtonApply
	Cancel	ButtonCancel
	Default	ButtonDefault
	No Check	ButtonNoCheck
	Sensitive	ButtonSensitive
	Standard	ButtonStandard
Data Alignment	Left	L
	Center	C
	Right	R
Display Type	Bitmap  Image	EXT_PIXMAP
	Check Box	CHECK
	Dropdown List Box	OPTION
	Multi-line Text Box	LONG
	Multi-line Text Box (CLOB)	CLOB
	OLE Container	EXT_OLE
	Option Buttons	RADIO
	Slides	SCALE
	Text Box (Alpha)	ALPHA
	Text Box (Char)	CHAR
	Text Box (Date and Time)	DATETIME
	Text Box (Date)	DATE
	Text Box (European Date)	EDATE
	Text Box (Integer)	INT
	Text Box (Julian Date)	JDATE
	Text Box (Money)	MONEY
	Text Box (Number)	NUMBER
	Text Box (R Integer)	RINT
	Text Box (R Money)	RMONEY
	Text Box (R Number)	RNUMBER
	Text Box (Time)	TIME
	Text Document	EXT_TEXT
	Text Editor	DB_TEXT
Label Type	None	None
	Value	Value
	Percent	Percent
	Label	Label
	LabelPercent	LabelPercent
Label Position	Left	L
	Center	C
	Right	R
Line Style	Lines	Lines
	Dots	Dots
	Both	LinesDots
On Empty Window	Close Window	CloseWindow
	Show Message	ShowMessage
	Show Window	ShowWindow
Orientation	Horizontal	Horizontal
	Vertical	Vertical
	Xy	Xy
Synchronize Lookup	None	None
	Non-editable Fields	NoneEditableFields
	All Edited Fields	AllEditedFields
Tick Mark Position	None	None
	Both	Both
	Top	LeftTop
	Bottom	RightBottom