Property

Description

Mobile Support

Border

Specifies whether the control will have a border.

Online support: Since version: 2.0

Platform specific: For Android and iOS devices, this property affects non-system colors only. For system colors, this property is ignored and the border is drawn by the operating system.

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Android and iOS

Font

Platform specific: On Android and iOS devices: The font size defined in Magic xpa is converted to pixels on the mobile device using the following formula: (font size on mobile in pixels) = (font size on Windows in points)*(device dpi)/72.

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Android and iOS

Color

Platform specific:

• On mobile devices, when a system color is used it will show the operating system's default color for the control.

• For Android devices, you can change the native color of the underline that appears with an Edit control that has focus. For more information, see: Native Color Customization.

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Android and iOS

Focus Color

Specifies the color that will be used on a control when the control gets focus. Since version: 3.0

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Disabled Color

Specifies the color that will be used on a control when the control gets disabled. Since version: 4.6

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Help Screen

Specifies whether a Help screen is associated with this control. You can zoom to select a Help screen from the Help list.

For Rich Client controls, only help screens of Type=URL are supported.

For Rich Client controls, the URL can point to a server file and not to a Web location. (Since version: 1.9)

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Tooltip

Specifies whether a ToolTip is associated with this control. A number specifies the number of the ToolTip Help in the Help list.

You can enter an expression for a Tooltip so that the Tooltip is dynamic. You can create the expression in Unicode format.

Help Prompt

Specifies whether a Help prompt is associated with this control. You can zoom to select a Help prompt from the Help list.

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Hint

The text that will be used as the hint of the control. A hint is the text shown on an Edit control that is removed automatically while typing.

In Mobile Design mode, when dragging variables to the form with the Shift key pressed (Since version: 3.1):

• The variable name will be added as the value of the Hint property.

• If a value is defined in the Display Name property, the Display Name value will be shown as the hint.

When a translation file is defined, the Hint value is automatically translated. Since version: 3.2

Exceptions:

• Hints are not supported for Date and Time fields.

• Hints are not supported for Edit controls inside of Table controls.

• Hints will be seen only when the control is Modifiable and the task is in modify or Create mode.

• For iOS devices, hints are not supported for multi-line Edit controls.

Since version: Windows desktop support – since 3.2

See also: The Rich Client Samples project (program RMO01)

Android and iOS

Hint Color

Defines foreground color of the hint text.

Since version: 3.2

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Android and iOS

Visible

Android and iOS

Enabled

Android and iOS

Horizontal Alignment

The horizontal alignment of the text in the control. The options are Left (default), Center, and Right.

Supported expression values:

1 - Left

2 - Center

3 - Right

Since version: 3.3g

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Android and iOS

Vertical Alignment

If the Multi-Line Edit property is set to True, this property is disabled.

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Android