Progress
Results Administration
and Development Guide
Feature Editor
The Results Feature Editor allows you to define, modify, and delete features in Results. To access the Feature Editor, choose Query
Customize
Features. The Feature Editor dialog box appears:
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The Feature Editor dialog box contains the following user-interface elements:
Features
Lists the programmer-defined features. As you define features, this list grows. Select a feature from this list to establish a current feature that you can copy, modify, or remove.
Feature Edit Buttons
Allow you to do the following:
- Add — Defines a new feature in Results.
- Remove — Removes the current feature. You cannot delete a feature from Results if it is associated with a menu option or a toolbar icon. When you remove a feature, the procedure file associated with the feature is not deleted from your operating system.
- Clear — Clears the values specified in the Feature Editor. This action does not affect the definition of the current feature.
Name
Specifies the name of the current feature. You cannot change the name of an existing feature.
Program
Specifies the name of a Progress procedure associated with the current feature. Choose the Files button to locate an existing procedure file and associate it with the current feature. The next section provides a general framework for the definition of a feature procedure.
Argument
Specifies the argument values to pass to a procedure identified in the Program field in comma-separated list.
Label
Specifies the default menu label for the current feature. This label appears by default when you add the feature to the Results menu system. You can specify a mnemonic for the label by placing an ampersand (&) before a character within the label.
Help Line
Specifies a help string to associate with a toolbar representation of the feature. This help string appears at the bottom of the Results application window when the user right-clicks the icon associated with the feature.
Images
Identifies the default graphics files that represent the following icon states for a representation of the feature on the toolbar:
- Up —The unselected, sensitive state of the icon.
- Down — The selected state of the icon.
- Ins. — The unselected, insensitive state of the icon.
To specify a graphics file for an icon state, choose one of these buttons. Results displays a dialog box that allows you to locate and browse graphics files in your operating system, view them, and select one. In Windows, the graphics file must be a Windows Bitmap (.bmp) or Icon (.ico).
When you finish defining a feature, you can add it to the Results menu system or toolbar. You can also use the Feature Security option described in "Administering Results," to control end-user access to features.
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