Tips for setting form, component, and object properties
- To open a closed property sheet, click the name of the sheet on the View menu.
- Press CTRL+ALT plus a character to move to the first property whose name begins with the character.
- Press ALT+E to open the value of the current property in a text editor. This is useful to view or maintain long expressions.
- Press ALT+V to open a variable in the current property in the Variable Properties sheet.
- You can sort properties alphabetically or by category. To sort alphabetically, click the A-Z down arrow icon on the property sheet toolbar. To sort by category, click the tree/category button.
- With a component selected on a form, to view event properties, click the Events icon on the Component property sheet toolbar. To return to the main property sheet for the component, click the Properties icon .
- You can configure property sheets to show all properties but with non-applicable ones read-only or to show only the applicable ones. On the View menu, click Settings, and then select the Design Time tab. Set Development mode to Normal to display non-applicable properties as read-only or to Expert to display only the applicable properties.
- Grey text in a row indicates that:
- A row is a command row and does not accept typed values. To set or view a value, click in the row, and then click the ellipses (...) button. You can then view or define complex data for the property value.
- A property is read-only.
- A property is disabled by a related property setting.