Common Properties, Methods, and Events

Description

Standard control properties, methods, and events are defined in all  controls and some other classes.

Standard Properties

Control properties are named attributes of a control. They define object characteristics (such as caption text, foreground color, background color) or control behaviors. They are managed and implemented by the control itself.

Standard control properties are properties that are exported by the control itself and have similar behavior for all controls which share that property.

The following table defines the standard control properties:

 

Appearance

Caption

Font3D

Image

BackColor

Enabled

ForeColor

Tag

BorderStyle

Font

hWnd

Text

For more information about control properties, see About Properties.

For a description of the conventions used in this help system to document properties, see Convention for Documenting Properties, Methods, and Events.

Methods

Refresh

Events

A control event is a notification that is fired by a control, menu, or form in response to some user action (such as clicking the mouse or pressing a key), a programming command, or other action that changes the control. The control user can write code to respond to these events. Events can occur as a result of user action or program code, or they can be triggered by ATEasy. The following table lists those control events that are standard or common.

 

OnClick

OnKeyPress

OnMouseMove

OnDblClick

OnKeyUp

OnMouseUp

OnKeyDown

OnMouseDown

 

See Also

Extended Properties, Methods, and Events