Common Properties

`TITLE`

Labels can take titles. The text of the title is the text displayed on the screen. The TITLE phrase is used to specify a title. A key letter may be specified in the title. See the entry for TITLE Phrase in Common Screen Options in the ACUCOBOL-GT Reference Manual for more information.

`VALUE`

Labels cannot be activated and do not take values.

`SIZE`

Labels define their height by multiplying the LINES value by the height of the label's font (including any interline spacing). For example, a LINES value of 1 indicates one line of text. Labels define their width by multiplying the SIZE value by the width of the zero character of the label's font.

When the program executes on a non-graphical system, the values specified in the CLINES and CSIZE phrases, if present, replace the values specified by the LINES and SIZE phrases.

The default value of LINES is 1. The default value of SIZE is computed by measuring the length of the label's title using the label's font and dividing by the width of the zero character. Thus, the default width of a label exactly occupies the space its text takes up on the screen.

To get a multiline label, set the LINES value to the number of lines wanted and the SIZE value to the desired width. SIZE specifies the width that each line of the label will occupy

`COLOR`

Labels use both the foreground and background colors specified. If either is omitted, the corresponding color of the label's owning subwindow is used.

If you are using the WIN32_NATIVECTLS runtime variable to automatically enable Windows XP or Vista control styles, label background colors may exhibit a darker background when residing on frames or tab frames. This is because XP and Vista label controls have a different background color than frames or tab frames. Making labels have the TRANSPARENT property resolves this issue.

`STYLES`

`LEFT`	This alignment style causes the label’s text to be left-aligned in its region. By default, the label text is not justified. When `LEFT`, `RIGHT`, or `CENTER` is specified at the time the label is created, the label's text is stripped of leading and trailing spaces before the default size is computed.
`RIGHT`	This style causes the label's text to be right-aligned in its region. This will appear no differently from `LEFT` if the `SIZE` of the label does not provide any extra space for the label's text.
`CENTER`, `CENTERED`	This style causes the label's text to be centered in its region. This will appear no differently from LEFT if the SIZE of the label does not provide any extra space for the label's text.
`NO-KEY-LETTER`	This style suppresses the interpretation of "&" as a key prefix. This is useful in cases in which you are assigning user-entered data to a label and want to allow values that include the ampersand ("&") character (such as "AT&T").
`TRANSPARENT`	This style makes a label's background invisible, so that anything underneath the label shows through. TRANSPARENT is useful if you want to display a label that blends into a background having more than one color. It is also useful when labels appear on frames or tab frames and you are using the `WIN32_NATIVECTLS` runtime variable to automatically enable XP or Vista control styles. In this case (due to Microsoft design of these controls) the label may have a darker background than the frame. Making the label transparent resolves this issue.