DropDownListBox edit style
Description
Specify properties for the column’s edit style or
define a new style in the Database painter. When you specify DropDownDataWindow
or DropDownListBox as the edit style, you should increase the height
of the field in the report if it is editable.
Options
Style Name
In the Database painter, enter a new name for the style. In
the DataWindow painter, select a style from the drop-down list or
leave blank. If there is an existing edit style that is similar
to the style you want, select it and then modify it. The changes
do not affect the edit style defined in the Database painter.
Style Type
Select a different style type from the drop-down list.
Case
The case of the text in the DropDownListBox. Select Any to
allow any case, Upper to convert characters to uppercase, or Lower
to convert characters to lowercase.
Accelerator
An accelerator key for a column allows you to select a column (change
focus) with a keystroke rather than with the mouse. You change focus by
pressing the accelerator key in combination with the ALT key. To
assign an accelerator key to the DropDownListBox, enter the letter
you want to use in the Accelerator box. To indicate the accelerator
key in the text associated with the DropDownListBox (usually a label
or text object), enter an ampersand (&) before the letter
you assigned as the accelerator key.
Allow Editing
Check to allow the user to enter a value in the line edit
portion.
Auto Horizontal Scroll
Check to set the value of the DropDownDataWindow to NULL when
the user leaves it blank.
Sorted
Check to display the data in the dropdown portion in sorted
order.
Empty string is NULL
Check to set the value of the DropDownListBox to NULL when
the user leaves it blank.
Required
Check to make the DropDownListBox a required field.
Always Show Lists
Check to display the dropdown portion of the DropDownListBox
whenever the field has focus.
Always Show Arrow
Check to display the down arrow permanently at the end of
the line edit portion. If Always Show Arrow is checked, the setting
of Always Show List is ignored.
Vertical Scroll Bar
Check to display a vertical scroll bar.
Limit
An integer from 0 to 32767 specifying the maximum number of characters
that can be entered in the DropDownListBox. Zero means unlimited.
Code Table
If a code table has been defined for the column, the display values
and data values display. Otherwise, enter the text to be displayed
in the dropdown portion of the DropDownListBox in the Display Value
column and the values you want to store when the column is selected
in the Data Value column.