Actions

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Most controls and drop items can have an action associated with them.

Bellow is a description of each action type.

 

No action

This action has no prompts, and generates no code.

 

You should use the "Embed" button to get to the hand code-embeds.

 

 

Call a procedure

This action type mimics Clarion's "Call a procedure" action, and should be well know to Clarion programmers.

 

ctrltpl_Actions_CallProcedure

 

 

Post Event

The Post Event action can be used to post an event to a control or thread.

 

ctrltpl_Actions_PostEvent

 

Event

The event to be posted

 

Control

Choose control to post even to

 

Thread

Receiving thread

 

 

Select Tab

Use this action type to easily change tabs from a toolbar.

 

ctrltpl_Actions_SelectTab

 

Control

Choose tab control to change to.

 

Set field value

The set field value action assign a value to a field/variable.

 

 

ctrltpl_Actions_SetFieldValue

 

Field

Field/Variable to receive the value.

 

Value

Value to write to field. If this is a string, it must be enclosed into ''. (Eg. 'My string')

If this value is a variable or numeric, no prefixing is needed.

 



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