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 |
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