2.0
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
Defining Objects
Designing a Form - 140
• Select an entry in the list and click
Remove
to remove it.
• A field with a list of choices looks like this in fill view:
A drop-down list arrow appears when the cursor is in the field.
Click the arrow to open the list and select an entry. The entry
appears in the field.
3 Deselect
Can Be Filled
so an empty field cannot be filled and a
filled field cannot be changed in fill view.
The
Can Be Filled
option, when deselected, overrides the
Must be Filled
in
option when it is selected in the
Validation
tab.
4Select
Tab Stop
so that the cursor automatically moves to the
selected field when the user presses the Tab key. Deselect
Tab
Stop
so that the cursor tabs past the selected field.
5Select
Help Message
to type a message that appears in the status
bar in fill view when the cursor is in that field.
In the example below, the help message tells the user how to fill
the field.
A help message can be up to 100 characters long.