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PowerCOBOL V11.0 Reference
FUJITSU Software

4.291 ThreeStates Property

Description:

Indicates whether the check box can take three states, rather than two states.

Used in control(s):

CheckBox

Values (with constants):

True - Takes three states.(POW-TRUE)
False - Takes two states.(POW-FALSE)

When the value is True, the control takes three states -

selected (black checkmark),
unselected (no checkmark) and
undefined (grayed checkmark).

The third state (grayed checkmark) is used to indicate partial selection of a group of options, or other in between states.

Default value:

False - Takes two states.(POW-FALSE)

COBOL picture:

S9(4) COMP-5

OLE data type:

VT_BOOL

Design time access:

Set and reference.

Execution time access:

Set and reference.

Backward compatibility attribute:

None.