A field group is the hidden parent of field-level widgets and child frames owned by a parent frame or dialog box. Thus, field groups are the actual children of frames and dialog boxes. A frame contains the following field groups:

  • A background field group (which includes the frame header)
  • For a one-down frame or dialog box: a single data field group containing field-level widgets and child frames
  • For a multiple-down frame: one data field group for each data iteration in the frame

A field group has no visible representation. You cannot explicitly define or create field groups. They are generated automatically when frames are defined or created.

Attributes

COLUMN attribute DYNAMIC attribute FIRST-CHILD attribute
FIRST-TAB-ITEM attribute FOREGROUND attribute HANDLE attribute
HEIGHT-CHARS attribute HEIGHT-PIXELS attribute HTML-CHARSET attribute
INSTANTIATING-PROCEDURE attribute LAST-CHILD attribute LAST-TAB-ITEM attribute
NAME attribute NEXT-SIBLING attribute NUM-TABS attribute
PARENT attribute PREV-SIBLING attribute PRIVATE-DATA attribute
ROW attribute SENSITIVE attribute TYPE attribute
VISIBLE attribute WIDTH-CHARS attribute WIDTH-PIXELS attribute
WINDOW attribute X attribute Y attribute
Note: For a field group, all of these attributes are read-only except for PRIVATE-DATA and SENSITIVE.

Methods

GET-TAB-ITEM( ) method –

Events

The FIELD-GROUP widget does not support any events.

See also

DIALOG-BOX widget, FRAME widget