Applies to

Hierarchical List Box controls.

Description

A boolean property to allow the control to respond to mouse hover notifications and expanding a node automatically.

The control needs to have the ENABLEDROP property set to true to enable this property.

Usage

dropExpand = Get_Property (objectname,"ENABLEDROPEXPAND")

dropExpand = Set_Property (objectname,"ENABLEDROPEXPAND", bValue)

Remarks

Values passed in Set_Property():

ValueDescription
bValueBoolean true (1) or false (0)

Returns

Values returned by Get_Property and Set_Property

ValueDescription
statethe Boolean status of the control’s drop expand ability.
existingStatethe Boolean status of the control’s drop expand ability, when Set_Property was run.

Example

Declare function Get_Property, Set_Property
* retrieve the ENABLEDROPEXPAND property of the LIST_1 control and if true set to false and vice versa.
lstCtrl = @window:".LIST_1"
dExpand = Get_Property(lstCtrl,'ENABLEDROPEXPAND')

if dExpand then newExpand = 0 else newExpand = 1
dExpand = Set_Property(lstCtrl,'ENABLEDROPEXPAND',newExpand)
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