Programming Guide - Actian

Table Field Operations• Displaying a horizontal scrollbar• Removing or adding the control button• Enabling and disabling user modifications to table field data• Copying the contents of a table field to the Clipboard• Column operations• TableField methods• Controlling multiple table fields with a single control button• Building sort and find into every table field menuHow You Can Display and Remove the Vertical Scroll BarWhen you create a table field, OpenROAD automatically gives your table field avertical scroll bar. You can remove this scroll bar by setting the HasScrollBarattribute of the TableField object to FALSE. The syntax for this operation is:field(tablefield).HasScrollBar = FALSE;To redisplay a scroll bar, set the HasScrollBar attribute to TRUE.How You Can Scroll Through DataA user can scroll the displayed data in a table field in one of the followingways:• Vertical scroll bar• Navigation keys: arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End keys• Single-character findHow You Can Use the Vertical Scroll BarNote: Scrolling through data changes the current row to one of the visiblerows and may also change selections. For more information about howselections are affected, depending on how the SelectionType andScrollingChangesSelection attributes are set, see the User Guide.The scroll bar can be used to scroll line by line or page up or page down. Youalso can drag the thumb of the scroll bar for longer scrolls.Working with Arrays, Table Fields, and Collections 237