Text Box display style options control the width of the displayed text box.

Text box columns

Specifies the percentage of the table control that should be devoted to the column in the form <Number><Unit Type>.

Text mode

Specifies whether a single line, password-enabled or multi-line .NET control is generated. 

Password text mode

Iron Speed Designer automatically (1) sets the control’s Text Mode property to Password and (2) sets the field validation type to Password if Iron Speed Designer detects that the underlying database field type is of ‘password’ or has ‘password’ in the field name.  Note that the .NET control’s Text Mode property and the Iron Speed Designer field validation type are two separate properties that can be controlled independently in Iron Speed Designer.

When the Password text mode is enabled for the underlying .NET control, the text box will be blank even though there may be underlying data in the database.  Also, the control’s value cannot be pre-set.  (These are .NET text box control behaviors.)  If the application user does not enter a value into the text box, the data remains unchanged in the database when the record is saved.  If the application user enters a value into the text box, the new value is stored in the database when the record is saved, overwriting the previous value, if any.  (These are behaviors of the generated application.)

To display the actual contents of a password field in the text box, such as on an Edit Record page, set the Text Mode to Single Line.  (Note: asterisks may be displayed if the field validation type is also set to Password.)