ITermEdit

Assembly: Forms;

Description

The ITermEdit interface contains properties and methods of the TermEdit and TermEditEx development environment components and also their derived components.

Inheritance Hierarchy

          IComponent

          IControl

          ICustomEdit

          ITermEdit

Comments

The TermEdit and TermEditEx components are base ones for the following components:

Properties

  Property name Brief description
EnableHyperlinks The EnableHyperlinks property determines whether expression can be displayed as a hyperlink.
Formula The Formula property determines an expression formula.
Hyperlink The Hyperlink property determines whether the specified expression is displayed as a hyperlink.
Terms The Terms property returns the collection of component expressions.
WantReturns The WantReturns property determines whether it is possible to insert a carriage return character into the edited text.
WantTabs The WantTabs property determines whether it is possible to insert a tab character into the edited text.
WordWrap The WordWrap property determines whether the words that are longer than component length are wrapped into a new line.

Properties inherited from ICustomEdit

  Property name Brief description
AutoSelect The AutoSelect property determines whether all component text is selected when component gets focus.
BorderStyle The BorderStyle property determines the style of a component border.
CanUndo The CanUndo property returns True if it is possible to undo text changes in the component.
CharacterCasing The CharacterCasing property determines the case of entered component characters.
HideSelection The HideSelection property determines whether selected component's text should remain selected on transferring focus to another component.
MaxLength The MaxLength property determines the maximum length of entered text.
Modified The Modified property returns True if the component text has been changed.
ReadOnly The ReadOnly property determines whether the user can change the component text.
SelLength The SelLength property determines the number of characters selected in the component text.
SelStart The SelStart property determines the position to start text selection in the component.
SelText The SelText property determines the text selected in the component.

Properties inherited from IControl

  Property name Brief description
Align The Align property determines component alignment within its parent component.
AllowDrag The AllowDrag property determines whether an object can be dragged from a component.
AllowDrop The AllowDrop property determines whether a component can accept a dragged object.
Anchors The Anchors property returns settings determining % of the resize for the current component when the parent component is resized.
Brush The Brush property determines the brush that is used to fill the component area.
ClientHeight The ClientHeight property determines the height of the client component area.
ClientWidth The ClientWidth property determines the width of the client component area.
Color The Color property determines a component background color.
Cursor The Cursor property determines how the cursor looks like when is it hovered over a component during form execution.
Enabled The Enabled property determines whether a component is available for the user.
Focused The Focused property returns True if the focus is set to the component.
Font The Font property determines parameters of the font that is used to display text in a component.
Height The Height property determines component height in pixels.
HelpContext The HelpContext property determines a unique index for a section of a context help for this component.
Hint The Hint property determines a tooltip text displayed on hovering over a component.
HintTimeout The HintTimeout property determines for how long a tooltip is displayed.
Left The Left property determines a coordinate of the component left edge in pixels.
Parent The Parent property determines a parent component.
ParentColor The ParentColor property determines whether a component inherits the color of the parent component.
ParentFont The ParentFont property determines whether a component uses the font of the parent component.
ParentShowHint The ParentShowHint property determines when a tooltip is displayed.
PopupMenu The PopupMenu property determines the context menu that opens when the component is clicked with the right mouse button.
Scrolls The Scrolls property returns parameters of component's scrollbars.
ShowHint The ShowHint property determines whether a tooltip is displayed when a component is hovered.
TabOrder The TabOrder property determines a component position in a tab order.
TabStop The TabStop property determines whether the component must be focused when the Tab button is pressed.
Text The Text property determines a row identifying a component for the user.
Top The Top property determines a coordinate of the component top edge in pixels.
Visible The Visible property determines whether the component is displayed when a form is executed.
Width The Width property determines horizontal size of a component in pixels.

Properties inherited from IComponent

  Property name Brief description
ComponentCount The ComponentCount property returns the number of child components located on the parent component.
Components The Components property returns the child component, which index is passed by the input parameter.
Data The Data property is used to store any custom data.
Name The Name property determines a component name.
Tag The compiler does not use the Tag property. The user can change the value of the Tag property and use it as he wishes.

Methods

  Method name Brief description

BeginUpdate

The BeginUpdate method disables a set of internal mechanisms to speed up inserting of terms into the component.

EndUpdate

The EndUpdate method resumes internal mechanisms of the component that were disabled to speed up inserting of terms into the component.

PutCustom

The PutCustom method inserts a custom expression into the specified position.

PutLiteral

The PutLiteral method places literal expression to the specified position.

PutTerm

The PutTerm method inserts the expression to the specified position.

Reparse

The Reparse method transforms editor text and redistributes terms in the component.

Methods inherited from ICustomEdit

  Method name Brief description
Clear The Clear method deletes all text in the component.
ClearSelection The ClearSelection method deletes selected text in component.
ClearUndo The ClearUndo method is used to fix changes of the Text property.
CopyToClipboard The CopyToClipboard method enables the user to copy selected data to clipboard.
CutToClipboard The CutToClipboard method enables the user to cut selected data and place it to clipboard.
PasteFromClipboard The PasteFromClipboard method pastes data from the clipboard.
SelectAll The SelectAll method selects all text in the component.
Undo The Undo method cancels last text change in the component.

Methods inherited from IControl

   Method name Brief description
ClientToScreen The ClientToScreen method converts point coordinates specified relative to the component's coordinate system into screen coordinates.
DoDragDrop The DoDragDrop method enables the user to start dragging operation.
GetImage The GetImage method returns a graphic presentation of a component together with all child components.
ScreenToClient The ScreenToClient method converts point's screen coordinates into coordinates specified relative to the component's coordinate system.
SetFocus The SetFocus method sets focus to this component.

See also:

Forms Assembly Interfaces