Powerbuilder Radio Button Group Code Dynamic Expression

For most datawindow edit styles, PowerBuilder supplies its developers with the means to visually show if it is available to accept user input.

The radio button and checkbox edit styles do not have this option.

In order to find out if the column is enabled or not, the user must actually click on it and see if changes.

When a radio button or check box is disabled, I switch the object to 2D.

This method also deals with tabular datawindow styles where multiple rows are displayed and the radio buttons and check boxes may be enabled in some rows, and disabled in others.

One copy would not be protected and have the enabled 3d look, the other would be protected with the disabled 2D look.

Use a datawindow expression to determine the protect property and reuse this expression for the visibility property.

When the column is enabled, the visibility property of the enabled column would be turned on, and the visibility property of the disabled would be turned off.

When the column should be disabled, the visibility properties of the two copies would be reversed.

How to include a raddiobutton style but only with one display value: Y Thanks in advance.

Disappointingly, there are no dynamic expressions for these attributes (Edit attributes and many others including DisplayOnly) even though implementing dynamic expressions for almost each attribute by Sybase should be a piece of cake.

Powerbuilder Radio Button Group Code Dynamic Expression

What is the point of having dynamic expressions for Color attributes when we cannot set a columns DisplayOnly with a dynamic expression as well We end up with a HYBRID code dynamic expression for color and hand-coded logic for DisplayOnly.

Really Other inconsistencies Protect instead of Enabled, ReadOnly (with dynamic expression), etc are not exposed in Properties, DW.Color and DW.Gradient.Color do not have dynamic expressions while object.Color and object.Gradient.Color do.

DW Buttons are a joke they act like text objects with a 3D border insonsistent focus rectangle, no space-bar support, etc.

Some of these discoveries date back to PowerBuilder 4 and may not be relavent with the later versions of PB.

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