Editor-Show-Always

This property defines the editor control visibility within each column. A value of 0 means that the editor control will be shown only during cell editing, while a value of 1 means that the editor control will be always visible. The default value is 0 for every column.

This property affects the following editor controls: Combo-Box, Date-Entry, Entry-Field and List-Box.

Check-Box and Push-Button are always visible, instead.

Since this setting affects each column, a list of values is needed.

When values are enclosed between parentheses, a new list is defined at once. The snippet below specifies that the editor visibility is 0 for the 1st column and 1 for the 2nd column. The editor visibility for the other columns, if any, will be 0, the default.

EDITOR-SHOW-ALWAYS = (0, 1)

When a single value greater than or equal to zero is set, it is appended to the list.

Setting the property to -1 resets the list.

 

Example - Set editors visibility by reading values from a Occurs

procedure division. ... modify screen-1-gr-1, data-columns = -1 | resets the list of values perform varying columnidx from 1 by 1 until columnidx > columncount    modify screen-1-gr-1, editor-show-always = editor-vis-flag(columnidx)  end-perform

Example - Modify a 3 columns grid to always show the editor of the 1st column

screen section. ...   03 screen-1-gr-1 Grid      line 6.2      column 5.1      size 37.4 cells       lines 15.5 cells       id 1      event procedure screen-1-gr-1-evt-proc      no-box      column-headings      row-dividers 1      heading-font Default-Font      cursor-frame-width 3      num-rows 5      . ... procedure division. ...   modify screen-1-gr-1          column-dividers ( 1 1 1 )          data-columns ( 1 9 17 )          display-columns ( 1 9 17 )          separation ( 5 5 5 )          alignment ( "U" "U" "U" )          data-types ( "X" "X" "X" )          editor-show-always ( 1 0 0 )          . ...