Property

Description

Mobile Support

Border Width

Defines the border width in pixels according to the device’s dpi.

Android and iOS

Border Color

Defines the border color.

Android and iOS

Border Focus Width

Defines the border width in pixels according to the device’s dpi when the Edit control is in focus.

Android and iOS

Border Focus Color

Defines the border color when the Edit control is in focus.

Android and iOS

Corner Radius

Defines the corner radius in pixels of the control according to the device’s dpi.

Platform specific: On iOS devices, for controls on a table, the controls’ border and especially the corner radius will slow the table's performance.

Android and iOS

Open Picker

Defines whether the control will open the native date and time pickers. Relevant only for Edit controls with a Date or Time attribute.

Platform specific:

For Android iOS devices, tabbing into the date and time pickers, opens the pickers.

Android and iOS

Open Edit Dialog

Defines whether the editing of the control will be done in a dialog box or in the control. Relevant only on Android for Edit controls with an Alpha or Unicode attribute.

The default value of EditDialog for controls in a table is 'Yes'; and 'No' otherwise.

Android

Open Default Alignment

Defines whether the control will be aligned using the device’s default alignment rules or using the definition in the Horizontal Alignment property.

When this property is set to True:

• English text in the control will be aligned to the left and RTL text will be aligned to the right.

• The value of the Horizontal and Vertical Alignment properties will be ignored.

When this property is set to False:

• The text will be aligned according to the Horizontal Alignment property's value.

Platform specific:

For iOS devices, this property would work only while typing via keyboard.

For example, the alignment while using English keyboard would be LTR and for Hebrew keyboard it would be RTL.

Android and iOS

Keyboard Type

Defines the keyboard type. The options are: Default, Numeric, URL, Number Pad, Phone Pad, Name Phone Pad, and Email.

• Default – The default keyboard of the device.

• Numeric – The user can enter numbers and punctuation.

• URL – The user can enter text and URIs.

• Number Pad – The user can enter numeric text and phone numbers.

• Phone Pad – The user can enter phone numbers.

• Name Phone Pad – The user can enter numeric text.

• Email – The user can enter numeric text and e-mail addresses.

See also:

The Rich Client Samples project (program RMO05)

How Do I Customize the Keyboard on Mobile Devices?

Android and iOS

Keyboard Return Key

Defines the text that will appear on the return key. The options are:

• Default – The default operating system return key value (for example, Next if there is another control or Done on the last control).

• Next – Raises a Next Field internal event.

• Previous – Raises a Previous Field internal event.

• Go – Closes the keyboard and raises a Select internal event.

• Search – Closes the keyboard and raises a Select internal event.

• Done – Closes the keyboard and raises a Select internal event.

Note:

• The image or text that appears depends on the virtual keyboard that you are using.

• Go, Search and Done all have the same action, but the text that appears on the button is different.

Exceptions: This property is not supported for controls placed inside a Table control or for multi-line Edit controls.

See also:

The Rich Client Samples project (program RMO05)

How Do I Customize the Keyboard on Mobile Devices?

Android and iOS

Allow Suggestions

Defines whether the suggestion text will be used. This property is supported for Alpha and Unicode fields only.

Android and iOS

Accessibility Text

Specifies the text to be read out by the Android/iOS Text-to-speech engine for a control.

Since version: 3.2d

Android and iOS

Additional information

Specifies additional information related to the control on a mobile device.

For previously-used values, see Deprecated Additional Information Parameters.

This property is not available in Web Client tasks.

Android and iOS