Static Object

Parents, Children, Properties, Methods, Events

Purpose: This object is primarily used to display graphics in a sub-window.

Description

The overall appearance of an empty Static object is controlled by the value of its Style property which may be one of the following character vectors:

'BlackFrame'	'BlackBox'
'GreyFrame' or 'GrayFrame'	'GreyBox' or 'GrayBox'
'WhiteFrame'	'WhiteBox'

Note that the colours implied by the Style are not "hard-coded" but are actually defined by the current Windows colour scheme as follows:

Black	Window Border Colour
Grey/Gray	Desktop Colour
White	Window Background Colour

If the background colour of the Form is also set to the Window Background Colour, it follows that the Styles 'WhiteFrame' and 'WhiteBox' make the Static itself invisible (against the background), although the contents of the Static will show. This makes the Static appear like an invisible clipping window.