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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
Defining Objects
Designing a Form - 144
Defining a Comb Element Object
Choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu to open the Comb
Element Definition dialog box when a comb element is selected.
To define a comb element:
1 Select left and right border measurements under
Border Height.
This sets the left and right border height of each element. You
might, for example, select
Half
to use the popular half-border
height often seen on forms.
2Select
Prefill element
to place a hyphen in the selected element.
This is useful for phone numbers and other hyphenated
numbers. You can select this element in design view and
change it to another character such as a parenthesis.
3 Type a number in the
Length
text box.
This tells OmniForm how many characters to allow in the
selected element before moving to the next element. In some
countries, for example, the length of the area code element in a
phone number is 3.
4 Click
OK
to apply the changes.