Width

Description

The width of the control.

In the painter

Width on the Position page in the Properties view.

Value

An integer in the unit of measure specified for the DataWindow object. Units of measure include PowerBuilder units, thousandths of an inch (1000 = 1 inch), thousandths of a centimeter (1000 = 1 centimeter), or pixels.

Example

The following statement causes the width of a rectangle to be 500 PowerBuilder units if the state column for the row has the value NY. Otherwise, the rectangle is 1000 PowerBuilder units wide:

if (state = 'NY', 500, 1000)

For more details and pictures, see “Example 4: changing the size and location of controls”.