enable

enable specifies whether any user interaction can be performed with a widget (i.e. whether it is active or not).

Form XML code:

<element_name visible="true"identifier="f1"enable="true">

By default, enable is set implicitly to true and is displayed as unknown in the Properties view and absent from the form XML code:

The property value will appear in the form XML code only once it is set explicitly (the Properties view will change as well):

Possible values:

true, false

Default value:

true

Associated containers and widgets:

Associated 4gl syntax:

INPUT↓

DISPLAY ... TO↓

Associated ui methods:

SetEnable ↓

GetEnable

Influence and behavior:

With the enable property set to false, widgets and containers become inactive at runtime:

property set in the form

runtime appearance

There are three methods to enable/disable a widget at runtime.