Control which features you can access at run time

You can enable and disable the shortcut menu features available at this control.

Configure run-time features

1. Right-click the Alarm DB View control and then select Properties. The AlmDbViewCtrl Properties dialog box appears.

2. Select the General tab.

   

3. In the Context-Sensitive Menu Options area, configure which menu commands are available at run time.

   • Select the Enable Refresh Menu checkbox to enable the Refresh menu option in the shortcut menu of the control at run time. The Refresh menu refreshes the control to the database, and if the connection is successful, it shows the set of records in the range 1 to number defined by the MaxRecords property.

   • Select the Enable Reset Menu checkbox to enable the Reset menu option in the shortcut menu of the control at run time. The Reset menu arranges all the columns to the settings saved at design time.

   • Select the Enable Sort Menu checkbox to enable the Sort menu option on the shortcut menu of the control at run time. This menu shows the Secondary Sort menu used to set the user-defined sorting of columns.

   • Select the Enable Filter Menu checkbox to enable the Filter menu option on the shortcut menu of the control at run time. This menu shows the filter menu used to set the user-defined filtering criteria.

4. Select the Resize Column checkbox to allow resizing the columns.

5. Select the Row Selection checkbox to enable selecting alarm records.

6. Select the Retrieve buttons checkbox to show the retrieval buttons at the right side of the control.

7. Select Apply.