Screen scaffolding: controls

Control Hierarchy

Root Control

Usually, the first Pagecontrl (tab), GroupBox (grp), User contrl (uco), or Panel (pnl). Sometimes, especially with inheritance of the forms, this does not work. So you can set the attribute RootControl=true for the control that you want to be the root.

(this behaviour is implemented in Ict.Tools.CodeGeneration.TCodeStorage.GetRootControl)

Control Types

• pnl: Panel
• uco: User defined control; needs attribute Type with the value containing the full namespace for the control, eg:

       ucoPersonnelTabSet:
           Type: Ict.Petra.Client.MPartner.Gui.TUC_PartnerEdit_PersonnelTabSet

• tab: Page Control, consisting of tpg (tabbed pages)
• grp: Groupbox
• chk: Checkbox
• grd: Grid control
• btn: Button
• nud: Numeric Up/Down
  • has a second label LabelUnit, which can be optionally set
• txt: normal edit field
  • special behaviour for Type=PartnerKey and Type=Extract
• rbt: simple radio button
• rgr: radio button group
  • this can contain several other controls in Controls list, which will create radiobuttons with the controls for each item
  • or can just contain text in value OptionalValues, which will create radiobuttons for each text
• chk: checkbox
  • can have a list of dependent other controls in Controls list
• rng: enter 2 values that define a range
  • this is basically a special panel