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PowerCOBOL V11.0 Reference
FUJITSU Software

4.7 Appearance Property

Description:

Indicates whether the object or control has a flat or 3D appearance.

Used in:

Controls

Animation

Edit

FileList

FolderList

Frame

Graph

GroupBox

Image

ListBox

ListView

MCI

ProgressIndicator

Shape

Slider

StaticText

Table

TextBox

TreeView

Object

Form

Values (with constants):

0 - Flat(POW-APPEARANCE-FLAT)
1 - 3D(POW-APPEARANCE-3D)

Specific Details:

Form

Makes the border to the client area 3D or flat.

Frame

It is not effective when the FrameStyle is "1-Panel" and the BorderStyle is "0-None".

Shape

It is only effective when:

ShapeStyle property is "0-Rectangle" or "1 - Square"
and
BorderStyle property is "1 - Solid" or "6-InsideFrame"
and
BorderRound property is 0.

Others

It is only effective when BorderStyle property is "1 - Solid".

Default values:

Form and Shape

0 - Flat(POW-APPEARANCE-FLAT)

Others

1 - 3D(POW-APPEARANCE-3D)

COBOL picture:

S9(4) COMP-5

OLE data type:

VT_I2

Design time access:

Set and reference.

Execution time access:

Set and reference.

Backward compatibility attribute:

None.