Popup menu associated with Table controls and their columns (AAF)

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Popup menu associated with Table controls and their columns (AAF)

Overview

The AAFs available in the popup menu of the Table and TreeView Table controls

Configuring the automatic popup menu of Table and Treeview Table controls

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Popup menu associated with Table controls and their columns (AAF)

Overview

The WINDEV and WINDEV mobile applications automatically propose a popup menu for the Table and TreeView Table controls and for their columns.

This popup menu, available without programming, presents several useful features: these features are part of Automatic Application Features (AAF).

The AAFs available in the popup menu of the Table and TreeView Table controls

The system popup menu (also called "Menu of AAFs") associated by default with the Table and TreeView Table controls proposes the following options:

Copy the cell, the row or the control content. See Handling the columns of a Table control at run time (AAF) for more details.
Versions 20 and later
Store the status of breaks (if the Table control contains breaks). See Storing the breaks in the Table controls (AAF) for more details.
New in version 20
Store the status of breaks (if the Table control contains breaks). See Storing the breaks in the Table controls (AAF) for more details.
Store the status of breaks (if the Table control contains breaks). See Storing the breaks in the Table controls (AAF) for more details.
Versions 18 and later
Display information on several lines (for the Text columns). See Handling the columns of a Table control at run time (AAF) for more details.
New in version 18
Display information on several lines (for the Text columns). See Handling the columns of a Table control at run time (AAF) for more details.
Display information on several lines (for the Text columns). See Handling the columns of a Table control at run time (AAF) for more details.
Automatic calculations (sum, mean, ...) for some types of columns. See Automatic calculations in a Table control (AAF) for more details.
Export the table:
- to Word by default or to OpenOffice Writer if it is installed.
- to Excel by default or to OpenOffice Calc if it is installed.
- to XML.
See Exporting data (AAF) for more details.
Chart: Create a chart for representing data (on the numeric columns). See Chart on a table column (AAF) for more details.
Select several columns of the Table control.
To simplify the menu, only the columns with a title are proposed.
This option allows the user to display or hide the columns (to limit the size of the menu, only the first 32 columns of the Table control are displayed).
Print the content of the Table control (direct print or print via "Reports & Queries"). See Printing the content of a table (AAF) for more details.
Versions 20 and later
Define the background color. See Coloring a row, a column or a cell found in a control (AAF) for more details.
New in version 20
Define the background color. See Coloring a row, a column or a cell found in a control (AAF) for more details.
Define the background color. See Coloring a row, a column or a cell found in a control (AAF) for more details.

This menu allows the user to easily perform different processes not necessarily planned in the application

Remarks:

The Table and TreeView Table controls propose several other AAFs.
This popup menu of Table controls is available for the Pocket PCs only. This menu is not available for the Smartphones and for most of the Pocket PCs that use a generic CE.
You have the ability to add choices to this menu:
- from the editor (see below).
- by programming. To do so, use ..PopupMenu.

Configuring the automatic popup menu of Table and Treeview Table controls

Configuring the automatic menu in a Table/Treeview Table control

The popup menu of the control can be disabled. To configure the display of the popup menu:

Open the control description window.
Select the "UI" tab.
Choose the requested menu in the "Popup menu" combo box:

You can choose to display:

the system menu (menu of AAF). The options can be configured with the "Parameters" option. This menu can be displayed or not.
a custom popup menu. This menu can be displayed on its own or in addition to the system menu. In this case, you can specify whether this menu must be displayed before or after the system menu. See Managing the popup menus for more details.
no menu.

Remark: The same configuration can be performed for the columns of the Table control. By default, the popup menu of the Table control is associated with all the columns.

Configuring the "Select columns..." option

In some case, you may not want to give the user the ability to hide the columns. To do so, the "Select columns..." option can be enabled or disabled:

Open the control description window.
Select the "Details" tab.
Check or uncheck "'Select columns...' menu".

Configuring some options by programming: Functions for managing the automatic features

Several WLanguage functions are used to manage the display of some options in the system popup menu of the Table or TreeView Table control:


Versions 21 and later AAFDisable New in version 21 AAFDisable AAFDisable	Disables an Automatic Application Feature (AAF) on a control, window or on the current application.
Versions 21 and later AAFExecute New in version 21 AAFExecute AAFExecute	Runs an Automatic Application Feature (AAF) on a control or window. This function can be used to start the spelling checker on an edit control for example.