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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
Using the Scrapbook
Designing a Form - 165
Copying Objects to the Scrapbook
1 Open the desired scrapbook.
2 Select one or more objects on your form and drag them into the
scrapbook.
Alternatively, select one or more objects and choose
Paste Scrap
in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu.
Small thumbnails of the objects appear as
Scrap 1, Scrap 2,
and so forth
in the scrapbook.
You cannot store an OLE object in the scrapbook.
Placing Scraps in a Form
1 Open the desired scrapbook.
2 Select a scrap and drag it into your form.
Alternatively, select a scrap and choose
Copy Scrap
in the
Scrapbook Commands icon menu.
You can only select one scrap at a time. The selected scrap appears as the
original object in your form.
Renaming a Scrap
1 Select a scrap.
2 Choose
Rename Scrap
in the Scrapbook Commands icon menu.
3 Type a new name for the scrap and press Enter to accept the
name.
Press Esc to cancel the command and leave the name as it is.