Column Controls and Input Controls

The types of input control that USoft supports by default are:

USoft automatically creates column controls for you in the default application. These column controls are based on model definitions in USoft Definer. The realisation of these default column controls in the UI depends mostly on the Display Type attribute of the underlying domain.

You can also create column controls yourself. To do this, drag a column control class from the Controls catalog onto the object tree. Then, connect the control with a database column by setting the Data Source Name and Data Source Item properties manually. The column controls in the Controls catalog look like this:

Or, you can assemble column control containers yourself by manipulating input controls directly. This also allows you to create surface controls that have no connection to the database. The input control classes in the Controls catalog look like this:

Finally, you can also convert the type of an existing input control to a different type. Do this by editing the Type property of the contained Data object. Here is a mapping between input control types and values for the Type property: