Control Attributes
All controls have attributes associated with them.
Attributes control the behavior of the controls when your panel is displayed,
and return information about your controls to you when GUI ScreenIO
returns to your program. Four attributes are associated with each control;
the attributes reside in the -1 portion of the panel copybook.
The attribute names are the name of your COBOL field, plus a suffix.
This makes it easy to use them, since the name of the attribute for any given
control is obvious. Here's what the attributes look like for a field named
myfieldname:
|
01 panel-1.
.
.
15 myfieldname-A.
20 myfieldname-P
PIC X.
20 myfieldname-C
PIC XX.
20 myfieldname-O
PIC X.
20 myfieldname-M
PIC X. |
myfieldname-P is the paint attribute.
The paint attribute is used primarily to tell GUI ScreenIO which control
should be active when your panel is displayed, or to mark errors. On
return from GUI ScreenIO, it will tell you which control was active when GUI
ScreenIO returned to your program. It can also tell you when a control
causes GUI ScreenIO to return to your program.
On the call to GUI ScreenIO to display your panel:
| Value |
Action |
| C |
Makes this the active control when the panel
is displayed. |
| E |
Marks the control the error color (if
applicable). |
| I |
Makes this the active control when the panel
is displayed and sets the insert point at the offset specified in panel-INSERT-POINT. |
| - |
Any other value; no action. |
On return from GUI ScreenIO::
| Value |
Significance |
| - |
Default value (LOW-VALUE); nothing significant happened. |
| A |
This control was the active control. |
| F |
This control's definition requires it to cause GUI ScreenIO
to return to your program (Hot Field) when the
Field became Full. |
| H |
This control's definition requires it to cause GUI ScreenIO
to return to your program in some
situations, (Hot Field) and such a condition was detected.
These conditions are such things as, return when the
control becomes active, return when you leave the control, return when the
control is changed, and so on.
|
myfieldname-C is the color attribute.
The color attribute is used to override the color of a field that was
specified in the panel editor.
On the call to GUI ScreenIO to display your panel:
| Value |
Action |
| 0 |
Use the default color. |
| xx |
A named color
value.
You define a set of foreground/background color
combinations by name in the panel editor, and then simply move the one you
want - by name - to the field's color attribute to change the color of the
field's contents.
|
| 1-255 |
Only
for backward compatibility with applications converted from Legacy
ScreenIO. Assigns this color number to the control. New
applications should use named colors. |
On return from GUI ScreenIO::
| Value |
Significance |
| - |
Unchanged. |
The option attribute is used to make a control protected or invisible.
On the call to GUI ScreenIO to display your panel:
| Value |
Action |
| P |
Makes the control protected (you can't alter
its contents). |
| I |
Makes the control invisible (and protected). |
| R |
Sets Edit Controls to ReadOnly, and disables
tabbing into this control, prevents typing in the control, but allows copy
operations.
Note: Honored only for Edit Controls, Multi-Line Edit
Controls, and Validated Edit Controls. |
| - |
Any other value; no action. |
On return from GUI ScreenIO:
| Value |
Significance |
| - |
If value is Valid (as defined above), it will be returned
unchanged. Invalid values will be returned as low-values. |
myfieldname-M is the miscellaneous attribute.
On the call to GUI ScreenIO to display your panel:
| Value |
Action |
| - |
Presently unused. |
On return from GUI ScreenIO::
| Value |
Significance |
| - |
Default value (LOW-VALUE); nothing significant about this
control. |
| M |
The control content was modified by the user. |
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