Prof-UIS supports two types of controls in toolbars: window-based controls (like a combo box control) and windowless built-in fields including edit, combo, and date fields.
The latter can be used in customizable applications and have the following advantages:
- They are drag-and-droppable when the Customize dialog is open.
- The end user can change their width using the ALT key or when the Customize dialog is open.
- You can put them in pop-up menus, in the menu bar, and in the pop-up menu invoked from the toolbar's chevron.
- The contents of these fields is automatically synchronized if there are more than one copy of a particular field.
- String values of the combo field are stored not in the control's memory but initialized each time the field is about to appear on the screen.
Changing the width of an edit field in a toolbar at run time