Purpose
The Object Editor is designed to display and edit the properties of a single UBIK® object.
Basics
Appearance
Property controls
The control reads the property definition from the current context object and displays an editing control according to the respective data type of the MetaProperty:
| Data type | Editing control | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Bool | Picture | True or false to be read/set via a Checkbox |
| ByteStream | Picture | Internal type, will not result in an editing control |
| DateTime | Picture | Date and time in a combined value; format according to regional settings |
| Double | Picture | Double-precision floating-point format, optionally with unit of measurement |
| FileReference | Picture | A path to a physical file in DOS/Windows- or UNC notation |
| GeoData | Picture | Absolute geographic position combined of Longitude, Latitude and Altitude in WGS84 format |
| Guid | Picture | Pointer to another object, represented with the GUID of the target object |
| Int | Picture | An integer number |
| String | Picture | A string value |
| Undefined | Picture | Internal type, will not result in an editing control |
| XML | Picture | Markup text in XML format; currently displayed as raw string by this control |
Captions
Per default, each editing control shows the description string (DESCR) of the respective MetaProperty as its caption.
Tooltips
There are two kinds of Tooltips used in this control:
- when hovering over the label of an editing control, a Tooltip with the NAME of the respective MetaProperty will appear
- when hovering over a editing control wit a defined Unit (type double only), a Tooltip will show the current value computed in all other units of the same SI-Unit.
Drag & Drop
The Object Editor control is a target for Drag&Drop operations, any object can be dropped on the value field of an editing control if the dragged object matches the data type of the respective property.
Toolbar
| Control | Purpose |
|---|---|
| View Style | Indicates or changes the View Style of the control; changing it will result in reloading of the control |
| Navigate to context object | Attempts to navigate to the current context MetaClass. |
| Save | Saves the relation data object. |
This control doesn't feature any context menu yet.
View Styles
The Object Editor has two different View Styles, each of them providing different views and functionality.
List
The control will display the properties in a list, sorted according to the property ORDERID
Layouted
No functionality yet.