To display a list of the graphical objects in an interactive VADELIA or WADELIA program, select the Graphical objects option in the 4GL Editor's Program menu.
Important: This option will only be available if the active document contains the source for an interactive VADELIA or WADELIA program.
The dialog box will automatically be opened at the OBJ tab.
This option also sets out the properties of each graphical object.
With WADELIA programs, the dialog box displays all the Adelia objects that can be handled in the source via their properties.
Note: You can minimize the dialog box by double-clicking on the title bar, which will leave only the title bar visible.
Lists
Window/Page
List of the windows/pages used in the active document.
Default setting: the first window/page in alphabetical order.
Graphical object
List of the graphical objects belonging to the selected window/page.
You can sort the list in ascending or descending order of the values by clicking the column heading.
For VADELIA programs, the name of the personalized or basic graphical object used as a reference to create the graphical object in the window appears in the BGO/PGO column.
Properties
List of the properties of the object selected in the left-hand list.
You can sort the list in ascending or descending order of the values by clicking the column heading.
Context-sensitive menus
Graphical object list
Retrieve
This option is used to insert the name of the selected graphical object into the source in the active document, at the cursor's current position.
Dedicated presentation
In the document's source view, this option expands the blocks for the selected object, and collapses any other blocks.
Methods
This option is used to insert the methods of the selected object into the source in the active document, at the cursor's current position.
This option is only visible if the selected object has methods.
Management rules
This option lets you :
This option is only visible with WADELIA programs.
Property list
Retrieve
This option is used to insert the name of the selected property into the source in the active document, at the cursor's current position.
The name is either of the type "Object: Property", or, for Value properties, the object name that is the default value associated with the object.
Constants
This option is used to insert the constants associated with the selected property into the source in the active document, at the cursor's current position.
This option is only visible if there are constants associated to the selected properties, and only with VADELIA programs.