To open this page, click the Secondary tab in the Create/Modify a personalized graphical object dialog box.
This page contains the graphical object's additional properties.
Data entry
Information text
Informational text that you want to associate with the object in the graphical palette of Visual Adelia's Layout manager.
Lists
Original graphical object
Graphical object used as a basis for a personalized graphical object.
Select one of the existing graphical objects from the list box.
Once an original graphical object has been selected, new tabs appear in the dialog box. There are two types of corresponding pages:
Variable pages which change depending on the object: these pages are used to set the initial values for the object's properties.
Standard pages:
- Display: this page gives a graphical representation of the object created (according to the values set for the object's properties);
- Modifiable properties: this page contains all of the object's properties, and is used to indicate which of these will be modifiable (for a program's graphical controls based on this PGO).
This list is dimmed and unavailable in modification mode.
Pictures
Picture in the palette
Picture which will be associated with the personalized graphical object in the graphical palette of the Visual Adelia Layout manager.
The associated Select button opens a Windows system dialog box used to open the relevant graphical file for the picture that you want to use.
The selected image can be previewed in the area to the right of the button.
Picture of the cursor
Picture which will be associated with the cursor representing the personalized graphical object, as it is moved about in the Visual Adelia Layout manager or the 4GL Editor, using the Drag and Drop technique.
The associated Select button opens a Windows system dialog box used to open the relevant graphical file (*.cur) for the picture that you want to use.
The selected picture can be previewed in the area to the right of the button.
Buttons
Field-level help
This button opens the Help Editor which is used to enter the field-level help that is to be attached to the personalized graphical object.