State (Property)

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Visible or invisible control/block
State of a group of controls
State of a column in a Table control
Limitations

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State (Property)

In french: Etat

The State property can be used:

in a report.
in a window.
in a page.

In a report, the State property is used to get and change the state:

of a control,
of a report block.

Remark: In a report, the State property can only be used to set the visibility of a control or a block (controls and blocks cannot be grayed out). In this case, this property is available for backward compatibility with WINDEV 5.5 and WEBDEV 1.5. To show or hide a control or a block in a report, use the Visible property.

Example

// The STC_Static1 control becomes active
STC_Static1.State = Active

Syntax

Getting the state of an element in a report Hide the details

<Current state> = <Element name>.State

<Current state>: Integer constant

Current state of the object.
Active The control or block is visible.
Invisible Invisible control or block (it is recommended to use the Visible property).

<Element name>: Character string

Name of report control or block.

Modifying the state of an element in a report Hide the details

<Element name>.State = <New state>

<Element name>: Character string

Name of report control or block.

<New state>: Integer constant

New state of the object.
Active The control or block is visible.
Invisible Invisible control or block (it is recommended to use the Visible property).

Remarks

Visible or invisible control/block

In a report, the only possible state for a control or a block is visible or invisible. To set the visibility of a control, it is recommended to use the Visible property. This property optimizes the management of control visibility.

State of a group of controls

Finding out the state of a group of controls: the state corresponds to the state of the first control in the group.
Modifying the state of a group of controls: all the controls of the group are modified and correspond to the new state.

State of a column in a Table control

If the State property is applied to a column, the state of the entire column is changed (and not only the state of a cell).

Caution: the State property only restricts the state of the column defined in the description window. For example, if the column is read-only, no column cell can become editable.

Limitations

The State property has no effect on reports.