Action views

An action view defines a form item that can trigger an action in the program.

Action views as satellite items

Below is TOOLBAR section defining a toolbar button using the close action name. Here no layout tag is used because the toolbar item is part of the toolbar graphical object (it will not appear in the form layout area):

TOOLBAR
  ITEM close (TEXT="Close")
END

Action views in grid-based container

The position and size of the element is defined with an item tag, while the rendering and behavior is defined in the ATTRIBUTES section. Both parts are bound by the name of the item tag. The item tag name is local to the .per file and is not available at runtime.

The example defines a BUTTON form item, where the item tag name is "b_close", and the button name (and the action name) is "close":

LAYOUT
GRID
{
  ...
  [b_close     ]
}
END
END
...
ATTRIBUTES
BUTTON b_close: close, TEXT="Close";
END

Action views in stack-based layout

In a stack-based container, action views are defined as stack items, with the attribute defining the rendering and behavior:

LAYOUT
STACK
 GROUP group1 ( TEXT="Customer" )
  ...
  BUTTON print, TEXT="Print Report", IMAGE="printer";
  ...