Line Control
Creates a control that displays a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line.
Line
Remarks
A Line control is a graphical control that displays a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line that can't be changed directly. However, because a Line control has a full set of properties, events, and methods that other controls have, the Line control can respond to events and can be changed dynamically at run time.
For additional information about creating lines, see the Form Designer topic and Using Controls.
Example
The following example demonstrates how a Line control can be added to a form and how you can use the LineSlant property to specify the direction in which the line slants.
The AddObject method is used to add a Line control to a form. Three command buttons are added to the form, allowing you to change the direction in which the line slants or to close the form.
frmMyForm = CREATEOBJECT('Form') && Create a Form
frmMyForm.Closable = .F. && Disable the Control menu box
frmMyForm.AddObject('shpLine','Line') && Add a Line control to the form
frmMyForm.AddObject('cmdCmndBtn1','cmdMyCmndBtn1') && Up Cmnd button
frmMyForm.AddObject('cmdCmndBtn2','cmdMyCmndBtn2') && Down Cmnd button
frmMyForm.AddObject('cmdCmndBtn3','cmdMyCmndBtn3') && Quit Cmnd button
frmMyForm.shpLine.Visible = .T. && Make Line control visible
frmMyForm.shpLine.Top = 20 && Specify Line control row
frmMyForm.shpLine.Left = 125 && Specify Line control column
frmMyForm.cmdCmndBtn1.Visible =.T. && Up Command button visible
frmMyForm.cmdCmndBtn2.Visible =.T. && Down" Command button visible
frmMyForm.cmdCmndBtn3.Visible =.T. && Quit Command button visible
frmMyForm.SHOW && Display the form
READ EVENTS && Start event processing
DEFINE CLASS cmdMyCmndBtn1 AS COMMANDBUTTON && Create Command button
Caption = 'Slant \<Up' && Caption on the Command button
Left = 50 && Command button column
Top = 100 && Command button row
Height = 25 && Command button height
PROCEDURE Click
ThisForm.shpLine.Visible = .F. && Hide the Line control
ThisForm.shpLine.LineSlant ='/' && Slant up
ThisForm.shpLine.Visible = .T. && Show the Line control
ENDDEFINE
DEFINE CLASS cmdMyCmndBtn2 AS CommandButton && Create Command button
Caption = 'Slant \<Down' && Caption on the Command button
Left = 200 && Command button column
Top = 100 && Command button row
Height = 25 && Command button height
PROCEDURE Click
ThisForm.shpLine.Visible = .F. && Hide the Line control
ThisForm.shpLine.LineSlant ='\' && Slant down
ThisForm.shpLine.Visible = .T. && Show the Line control
ENDDEFINE
DEFINE CLASS cmdMyCmndBtn3 AS CommandButton && Create Command button
Caption = '\<Quit' && Caption on the Command button
Cancel = .T. && Default Cancel Command button (Esc)
Left = 125 && Command button column
Top = 150 && Command button row
Height = 25 && Command button height
PROCEDURE Click
CLEAR EVENTS && Stop event processing, close Form
ENDDEFINE
See Also
Reference
Line Control Properties, Methods, and Events