Microsoft KB Archive/131622

= How to Display Current Control Properties at Run Time =

Article ID: 131622

Article Last Modified on 2/15/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q131622



SUMMARY
While the property sheet is available for controls during design time, Visual FoxPro does not provide a direct way to display the current values of an active control during run time. You can place a maximum of sixteen entries in the Debug Window, but this has limited application.

Insert the code listed in this article in an appropriate method to display a list of the current properties and their values in a scrollable window.



MORE INFORMATION
For the following code sample to function as intended, the following conditions must be true:


 * The WindowState must be normal (0).
 * The form and control must be active and visible.
 * No other instances of the form can be running.

Insert the following code sample into a method (such as Click or InteractiveChange) that can be called interactively to determine the current state of the control's properties.

When you run the code, the currently active form is minimized and the property list window activated. Once the desired status is determined, close the property list window to return the form to its normal state.

Code Sample
* Property list display code LOCAL lnCnt lnCnt=AMEMBERS(paTmp,THIS)   && Store properties in private array Tmp SET SAFETY OFF SET TEXTMERGE TO objsho SET SAFETY ON SET TEXTMERGE ON NOSHOW THISFORM.WINDOWSTATE=1 FOR nI = 1 TO lnCnt \\<> \\<> \ ENDFOR SET TEXTMERGE OFF SET TEXTMERGE TO DEFINE WINDOW shobj AT 0,0 SIZE WROW-12,WCOL/2.5 ; TITLE 'Property List' SYSTEM GROW FLOAT CLOSE ; FONT _screen.FontName, _screen.FontSize ; STYLE IIF(_screen.FontBold,'B','N') MODIFY FILE objsho NOMODIFY WINDOW shobj RELEASE WINDOW shobj THISFORM.WINDOWSTATE=0
 * End of code

Additional query words: VFoxWin

Keywords: kbcode KB131622

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