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helperText

Lycia is going to move to Material Design.

helperText is one of the new properties available only for the material-design version of Lycia.

helperText property sets the helper text = additional information about the input field itself.

Form XML code:

Theme property filter XML code:

...

<PropertyName>HelperText</PropertyName>

</PropertyPath>

</SetProperty>

...

</ElementFilter>

Possible values:

depends on the user's needs

Associated containers, widgets and theme elements:

Associated ui methods:

setHelperText ↓

getHelperText ↓

Influence and behavior:

helperText property is used to specify the helper text = additional information about the input field itself:

We do not recommend making helper texts longer that 1 line so that they will not clutter your forms up.

If specified, helper text is always visible.

By default, helperText is not set either in .fm2 form or in .qxtheme theme and is absent at runtime:

Besides setting the helper text via Lycia Form Designer or Lycia Theme Designer, you can do it by ui methods:

setPlaceholderText()	specifies the helper text for the widget
getPlaceholderText()	returns the helper text specified for the widget in the .fm2 form, .qxtheme theme, or by setHelperText()

MAIN

DEFINE textfield ui.TextField

OPEN WINDOW w WITH FORM "lhp_texts" ATTRIBUTE(BORDER)

LET textfield= ui.TextField.forName("f1")

CALL textfield.SetHelperText("This text comes from setHelperText().")

CALL fgl_getkey()

END MAIN