In this leasson we want to demonstrate the different attributes for the screenform, such as : ButtonEdit, TextEdit… .
Each screenform attribute has a special attribute.

These are the screenform attributes that are supported by the VDC Client:

• Edit
• ButtonEdit
• TextEdit
• DateEdit
• ComboBox
• Label
• ProgressBar

And these are the special attributes that are supported for this screenform:

• Edit
  • AUTONEXT – go automaticly to the next field, if the field is full
  • COLOR – defines the color from the written text
  • DEFAULT – Assigns of a default value for this input.
  • DOWNSHIFT – Make uppercase letters to lowercase letters
  • HIDDEN – make the Edit box invisible
  • NOT NULL – accepts no NULL values for this field
  • NOENTRY – disallow an etry for this field
  • PICTURE – prevents entry of values that conflict with the specified pattern
  • REQUIRED – force the user of an input during an INPUT or INPUT ARRAY statement
  • UPSHIFT – make lowercases to uppercases
  • ACTION (ButtonEdit) – defines a name of the action and send to the program
  • IMAGEE (ButtonEdit) – define a image to display in this form
• TextEdit
  • COLOR – Color for the Text
  • DOWNSHIFT – disallow upper space
  • HIDDEN – make the TextEdit invisible
  • NOTNULL – aceppts no NULL values
  • NOENTRY – make the TextEdit Box uneditable
  • WANTTABS – allow tabs in the TextEdit Box
  • WANTNORETURNS – reject newline characters if the user pressed the return key
• DateEdit
  • COLOR – defines the COLOR of a Date in the DateEdit
  • DEFAULT – declare a default value for this field.
  • FORMAT – declare the format of this string
  • HIDDEN – make the DateEdit field invisible
  • NOT NULL – accepts no NULL values
  • NOENTRY – disallow an entry in this field
  • REQUIRED – force the user of an input during an INPUT or INPUT ARRAY statement
• ComboBox
  • COLOR – declares the COLOR of a text in the Combobox
  • DEFAULT – set a default value for this field
  • DOWNSHIFT – make uppercases to lowercases
  • COMMENT – Comment the Combobox
  • ITEMS – add items in the combobox (Static)
  • HIDDEN – make the combobox invisible
• Label
  • COLOR – defines the Textcolor for this label
  • COMMENT – Comment the Label
  • HIDDEN – If you want to hide the Label
• ProgressBar
  • COMMENT – Comment the ProgressBar
  • HIDDEN – Make the ProgressBar invisible
  • VALUEMIN – The Minimum Value for the ProgressBar
  • VALUEMAX – The Maximun Value for the ProgressBar

An example for the commands can be found Attributes and Progressbar

And these functions are supported by the VDC Client:

• ui.Window:
  • ui.Window.getCurrent() – returns the object reference of the current window
  • ui.Window.getForm() – returns the form object of the current window
  • ui.Window.setText(”String”) – set the Window Title

• ui.Form:
  • ui.Form.setElementhidden(String, bool) – The boolean can be have 0 or 1
  • ui.Form.setFieldHidden(String, bool) – the boolean can be have 0 or 1

• ui.Interface:
  • ui.Interface.refresh() – refresh the user interface
  • ui.Interface.setText(String) – defines a title for the program

• ui.Combobox:
• ui.Combobox.additem(String, String) – Add a Item to the Combobox list
• ui.Combobox.removeitem(String) – remove a Item from the Combobox list
• ui.Combobox.clear() – delete all items from the Combobox
• ui.Combobox.forName(String) – returns the combobox object identified by the fieldname
• ui.Combobox.getColumnName(int) – returns the name of the column name
• ui.Combobox.getItemName(int) – returns the name of the Item
• ui.Combobox.getItemCount() – returns the current number of the selected item.
• ui.Combobox.getItemText(int) – returns the value of an item on the current position
• ui.Combobox.getTableName() – returns the name of the table
• ui.Combobox.getTag() – returns the user defined tag of this object

An example for the commands can be found here

•  aclfgl:
• aclfgl_sendfile_to_ui(path) – send a file from the Server to the Client
• aclfgl_getclientfile(path) –
• aclfgl_send_to_ui(path) – send a file to the Client
• aclfgl_client_execute(filename) – open the file