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AppBuilder
Developer’s Guide
Configuring Look-and-Feel: Object Properties
AppBuilder supports application building blocks that differ significantly in their style of construction, sophistication, configurability, and functional role. Because of this, it is not possible for AppBuilder to present their properties to you in a single, unified way. You can find properties aggregated in several different ways:
- File-level property sheets, available by choosing Tools
Procedure Settings or the corresponding toolbar icon. Building blocks that exist as external procedures—such as container objects and ADM SmartObjects—will have file-level properties.
- Property sheets for SmartObjects, available by choosing Properties on the menu-button menu. To reach the Instance Properties sheet, select that menu item instead, or click on the Edit button in the main property sheet.
- SmartLinks sheet, available by choosing the button with the chain-link icon in the property sheet for a SmartObject. The sheet lists all current links to or from that object.
- Property sheets for basic widget instances, available by selecting the object and choosing Tools
Property Sheet.
- Certain object properties, such as size and position, can be examined and set by choosing Window
Properties Window. The exact properties visible in this window vary with the object. If you have more than one object selected, only properties common to all are displayed, and any changes affect all selected objects as well.
- Property sheets for ActiveX (OCX) objects, available by double-clicking the object representation.
For the properties that apply to a given type of object, see the discussion of that object type.
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