Edit Boxes

To create an edit box, call the following subroutines from your application:

CALL PIX.GUI.LOAD.EDIT (GUI.APP.NAME, CONTROL.DETAILS, STRING)

Where:

CONTROL.DETAILS	Control ID, EDIT, X, Y, W, H, Label, {Key1,...Keyn}

Where:

Control ID	The unique name for the edit box.
EDIT	Text literal EDIT.
X	The X co-ordinate of the left of the edit box.
Y	The Y co-ordinate of the top of the edit box.
W	Width of the box (characters).
H	Height of the box (characters).
Label	Edit text to be passed to the Edit Control.
Key1...Keyn	Additional parameters if required, in any order - see below.

The following extra keyword parameters are available:

HIDE	SHOW*	GRAYED	UNGRAYED *
TERMITE *	HELV8	HELV10	PASSWORD
READONLY	READWRITE *	NOSELECT	SELECT *
HSCROLL	VSCROLL	BORDERON	BORDEROFF *
HSCROLLBAR	VSCROLLBAR	UPPER	LOWER
NOCASECONVERT*	LINELEN	SCULPTURE	INTRANGE
LONGDATE	SHORTDATE	ABBRDATE	SYSTEM

Alternatively, you can use the PIX.GUI.CONTROL.LOAD subroutine, see Loading all types of controls for details.

Edit Boxes Program Example

Note: This example shows the lines of code split up for ease of readability - one line of code would normally be displayed on one line.

085 CALL PIX.GUI.LOAD.EDIT("" ,"NAME,EDIT,9,2,26,1,Lezand, HSCROLL,SCULPTURE","")
086 CALL PIX.GUI.LOAD.EDIT("" ,"D.O.B,EDIT,45,2,10,1,21 Apr 92,SCULPTURE","")
087 CALL PIX.GUI.LOAD.EDIT "","ADDRESS,EDIT,
33,13,25,3,,HSCROLL,VSCROLL,VSCROLLBAR,SCULPTURE","")