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About Text Items

A text item is an interface control that displays and allows editing of text. The text is displayed in a field in either single or multi-line format.

Runtime Behavior

A text item appears as an empty rectangular box or container. By default, an editor can be invoked from any text item.


Creating a text item

Manipulating text items at runtime

About text item data types

About single-line and multi-line text items

About text item maximum length

About required text item values

About fixed-length values for text items

About specifying a valid range of values for a text item

About restricting text items to upper or lower case

About justification

About hiding text item values

About automatic skip

About maintaining cursor position

About formatting text item values with format masks

About assigning a List of Values (LOV) to a text item