A single binding consists of a single widget-object relationship. A binding’s ORD property identifies the location of the object that updates and animates the widget.

The screen capture shows a value binding to a text label widget as viewed in the Ord window of a binding.

The most common type of binding, the value binding, provides some of the typical functions that are associated with building real-time information for presentation as both text and graphics. This includes support for mouse-over and right-click actions. Additionally, it provides a mechanism to animate any property of its parent widget using converters that convert the target object into property values. The screen capture illustrates the object-to-widget property binding concept. In this example, a widget has three separate data bindings. This means that each binding is coming from a different object and, therefore, each binding has a different ORD that defines its binding. Each binding provides access to an object’s values so that they may be used, as required, to animate the widget properties.