Hi Dave,

AFAIK, there is nothing available to get the syntax and video of a field/entity/.... in Uniface 8.

Solution: use a procedure to
- set syntax and video
- and store the info in $fieldproperties

This will NOT cover the default values;
so I generate an include file out of the uniface repository
to store the default values in $properties during initialisation.

This work was done as part of the dITo initiative
to provide needed functionality to uniface-coders right now.

Success, Uli

The Help of 9.4.rc mentions $fieldsyntax, $fieldvideo to set and get the information

$curoccvideo, $fieldsyntax, and $fieldvideo are available as of Uniface 9.1.01

Now, from you message I could not determine whether you're doing web development or regular C/S. For the web you should also know that you can never inspect the value of $fieldvalrep, $fieldproperty, nor the value of $curoccvideo, $fieldsyntax, and $fieldvideo because these values are never send back to the server and therefor simply return "" always. If you need this, maintain a copy in a field value.

Gerton

I cannot get $fieldsyntax to work under 9.4. Still comes back with "". If I have a button called PRINT with %Print, and have it set to HID. when the user presses ALT P, it still activates the detail trigger. I want to check if the fieldsyntax is HID before I continue.

Joe