Chapter 20: Enhancing Forms

Working in the Form painter Layout view

Here is the Form painter Layout view for a Freeform form style:

Shown is the Form painter Layout view for a Freeform form style. At top are a menu and three toolbars, then a field displaying the selected form, which is Employee Data, the font, which is Arial, the point size, which is set at 20, and buttons for Bold, Italic, and Underline. Below this at left is a partial view of the layout of the data, and at left is the General tab with a selected check box for Visible, a Border drop down list with No Border ( 0 ) selected, an Alignment dorp down set at Center ( 2 ), and a box labeled Text with the entry Employee Data.

This section describes how to work in the Form painter

“Using the Form painter toolbars”
“Using the pop-up menus in the Form painter”
“Using the Properties view in the Form painter”
“Selecting controls in the Form painter”
“Defining default colors and borders in the Form painter”
“Printing the form definition”

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Using the Form painter toolbars

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