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Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Tutorials
- Views and Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Toolbars
- Creating Objects
- General Creation Guidelines
- Creating a Text Object
- Creating a Line Object
- Creating an Oval Object
- Creating a Rectangle Object
- Creating a Graphic Object
- Creating a Fill Text Object
- Creating a Comb Object
- Creating a Check Box Object
- Creating a Circle Text Object
- Creating a Table Object
- Creating a Fill Graphic Object
- Defining Objects
- Changing Object Appearance
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Calculation Overview
- Operators
- Functions
- Abs (Absolute Value)
- Avg (Average)
- Date (Current Date)
- DayName
- DayOfMonth
- DayOfWeek
- DayOfYear
- Exp (Exponentiation)
- FV (Future Value)
- Hour
- If
- Int (Integer)
- Left
- Length
- Ln (Natural Logarithm)
- Log (Base 10 Logarithm)
- Lower
- Max (Maximum)
- Middle
- Min (Minimum)
- Minute
- Mod (Modulus (Remainder))
- Month
- MonthName
- Pi
- PMT (Payment)
- Position
- Proper
- PV (Present Value)
- RecordCount
- Replace
- Replicate
- Right
- Round
- Second
- Sign
- Sqrt (Square Root)
- Sum
- Time
- Trim
- Trunc (Truncate)
- Upper
- Year
- Functions — Quick Reference
- Functions Sorted by Type
- Technical Information
- Glossary
Creating Objects
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Creating Objects
This section explains how to create objects. You can create fillable objects
that a user fills in fill view, and non-fillable objects such as lines and
rectangles that contribute to a form’s design. You will learn how to use
all the tools in the drawing toolbar.
See “Defining Objects” on page 137 information on how to define objects
after you create them.
See Chapter 7, Filling a Form, for detailed information on how to fill
objects (fields) in fill view.
This section discusses general creation guidelines and then lists all
objects in the same order as they appear in the drawing toolbar. All
instructions assume that you are in design view using either a new form
or a designed form.
General Creation Guidelines
Use the same basic steps to create most objects. Some require more steps
as described in the following sections.
To create an object:
1 Click a tool in the drawing toolbar.
2 Click anywhere on the form to create an object of a default size,
or hold down the mouse button and drag the tool to make the
object the size you want.
3 While drawing, hold down the Shift key to:
• Make a rectangular object a square.
• Make an oval object a circle.
• Make a line object straight.
4 With the object still selected, you can:
• Type text if it is a text or a circle text object.
• Choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu to define the
object. See “Defining Objects” on page 137 for detailed
information.
• Choose
Object Appearance...
in the Format menu to set the
object’s appearance. See “Changing Object Appearance” on
page 149 for detailed information.
• Hold down the Ctrl key and drag the object to copy it.