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Help / WLanguage / WLanguage properties / Various properties
  • Window alias
  • Tab pane name
  • Object type
  • Connection name
  • Limitations
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Stored procedures
The Name property is used to get:
  • the name of the font associated with a variable of type Font.
    Note: The font name must match one of the fonts installed on the current workstation.
  • the name of a control, report or report block.
  • the name of a control, group of controls or window.
  • the name of a control, group of controls or page.
The Name property is used to change the name of the font associated with a Font variable.
The Name property can also be used to handle the names of different HFSQL objects. You can:
  • Find out the name of a connection.
  • Find out the name of an object handled by indirection:
    • data file defined in the data model editor or programmatically,
    • view,
    • query previously executed with HExecuteQuery,
    • item defined in the data model editor or through programming,
    • link defined in the data model editor or programmatically.
  • Define the name of the described element:
    • when a file is described through programming,
    • when an item is described through programming,
    • when a link is described through programming,
    • when a full-text index is described through programming.
Example
WINDEVUser code (UMC)
// Define the characteristics of a Font variable
Font1 is Font
Font1.Name = "Arial"
Font1.Color = LightYellow
Font1.Size = 14
Font1.SizeUnit = unitPoint
Font1.Orientation = 45
// Apply the font to "MyControl"
MyControl.Font = Font1
WINDEVUser code (UMC)HFSQL ClassicHFSQL Client/ServerHyper File 5.5
AnItem1 is Item Description
...
// Declare the item 1
AnItem1.Name = "ITM1"
AnItem1.Type = hItemText
AnItem1.Size = 20
HDescribeItem(AFile, AnItem1)
...
HDescribeFile(AFile)
HCreation(Temp_File)
// Procedure to which a control name is passed as parameter
PROCEDURE MakeVisible(Control)
// Name of current control
IF {Control}..Name = "CustomerName" THEN
	{Control}..Visible = True
END
Syntax

Finding out the name of specified element Hide the details

<Result> = <Element used>.Name
<Result>: Character string
Name of specified element.
<Element used>: Character string
Name of the element to be used.
WINDEVUser code (UMC)HFSQL ClassicHFSQL Client/Server

Modifying the name of specified element Hide the details

<Element used>.Name = <New name>
<Element used>: Character string
Name of the dynamic object used:
or
Name of the Font variable to be used.
<New name>: Character string
New name for the specified element
Remarks
WINDEVUser code (UMC) A font can be created from a Font variable.
To define the font characteristics, use:
This font can be used:
WINDEVUser code (UMC)

Window alias

The same window (child or sibling window) can be opened several times. To differentiate and identify the opened windows, an alias is assigned to each window.
To define an alias, use OpenSister or OpenChild. This alias is used to identify windows with functions that take a window name as a parameter (CurrentTitle, NextTitle, SetFocusAndReturnToUserInput, etc.) or to handle a control in a given window.
To get the alias of a window, use CurrentWin, PreviousWin or the Alias property.
If no alias is specified when the window is opened, an alias is automatically assigned to the window by WINDEV.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Tab pane name

The Name property returns the name of the tab pane. For example: Tab[2] for the second tab pane.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Object type

The Name property returns an empty string ("") for:
  • lines in Table, List, ListView control or Combo fields,
  • cells in Table controls.
WINDEVUser code (UMC)HFSQL Client/ServerOLE DBNative Connectors (Native Accesses)

Connection name

A connection can be created by a Connection variable. The name of the connection corresponds to the name of the variable.
If a connection with the same name already exists (in the analysis or described beforehand), the name of the connection is defined by the HFSQL engine that adds a suffix (a number) to the name of the variable.
In this case, the Name property returns the name of the connection defined by the HFSQL engine.

Limitations

WINDEV The Name property cannot be used on:
  • an option in a Radio Button or Check Box control,
  • an element in a TreeView control.
Java The Name property can only be used with the following elements:
  • Button control.
  • Static Text control.
  • Edit control.
  • Image control.
  • Check Box control.
  • Radio Button control.
  • List Box control.
  • Combo Box control.
  • TreeView control.
  • Tab control.
  • Window.
  • Table control.
  • Table column.
  • Supercontrol.
Minimum version required
  • Version 9
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