Unsupported Properties for Controls in Windows Forms

If your application uses unsupported properties for Windows Forms targets, you must rework the application before you deploy it.

This table is an alphabetical listing of unsupported properties. It also indicates the controls on which they are not supported, and any notes that apply to specific controls.

Unsupported properties for Windows Forms deployment
Property	Controls
Alignment	OmCustomControl
AllowEdit	DatePicker
Activation	OmEmbeddedControl
BackColor	Tab, UserObject (see Tab properties)
Border	DatePicker
BorderColor	StaticHyperLink, StaticText
BorderStyle	DatePicker, Graph
Cancel	OmCustomControl
Columns	MenuCascade
ColumnsPerPage	UserObject
ContentsAllowed	OmEmbeddedControl
CurrentItem	MenuCascade
Default	OmCustomControl
DisplayType	OmEmbeddedControl
DocFileName	OmEmbeddedControl
DropDown	MenuCascade
FillPattern	StaticHyperLink, StaticText
Height	DatePicker
Help	Menu, MenuCascade
HScrollbar	DropDownListBox
IMEMode	All controls
LinkUpdateOptions	OmEmbeddedControl
Map3DColors	PictureButton
MenuItemType	Menu
MergeOption	Menu
ObjectData	OmEmbeddedControl
ParentStorage	OmEmbeddedControl
RaggedRight	Tab (see Tab properties)
RightToLeft	DataWindow, ListBox, ListView, TreeView
SizeMode	OmEmbeddedControl
StatePictureHeight	TreeView
StatePictureWidth	TreeView
Style	UserObject
TabStop	ListBox, MultiLineEdit
TabTextColor	UserObject (see Tab properties)
ToolbarAnimation	Menu
ToolbarHighLightColor	Menu
ToolbarItemSpace	Menu

FaceName property

If you use a bitmap (screen) font such as MS Sans Serif instead of a TrueType font for the FaceName property, make sure you select a predefined font size from the TextSize drop-down list. PowerBuilder and .NET use different functions (CreateFontDirect and GdipCreateFont) to render bitmap fonts and they may display larger in the .NET application than in the development environment or a standard PowerBuilder application. For example, text that uses the MS Sans Serif type face and the undefined text size 16 looks the same as size 14 in PowerBuilder, but looks larger in .NET.

Tab properties

The RaggedRight property for a Tab control works correctly if the sum of the widths of all the tab pages is greater that the width of the Tab control, and the MultiLine property is set to true. However, when the PerpendicularText property is true, RaggedRight is not supported.

While the TabPosition property value is tabsonleft! or tabsonright!, and there is not enough room for all the tabs in a single row, the tabs appear in more than one row, regardless of the Multiline property setting. If you then dynamically set Multiline to true, the tabs display on top of the Tab control, regardless of the TabPosition setting.

Dual position display is not supported by the .NET Tab control (System.Windows.Forms.TabControl), so the TabPosition value tabsontopandbottom! displays tabs on top only. The tabsonrightandleft! value displays tabs only on the right, and the tabsonleftandright! value displays tabs only on the left.

The BackColor and TabTextColor properties for a tab page in a Tab control are not supported if the XP style is used.