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
Tutorial 1 — Load and Fill a Form
Tutorials - 23
3 Continue to press the Tab key to move to and fill in the
Address,
City,
and
State
fields (or click to place the cursor there).
You can press Shift-Tab to move to a previous field.
4 Tab to or click in the
Zip Code
field.
This is a
comb
field. This is a field that is subdivided into
comb
elements.
The next fields,
Phone Number
and
Fax Number,
are
also comb fields.
5 Type five numbers in the
Zip Code
field.
You do not have to click in each box in the field. OmniForm
moves the cursor automatically for you.
6 Tab to or click in the
Phone Number
comb field and type ten
numbers.
The parentheses are already on the form, but you have to type a
hyphen between numbers yourself.
7 Fill in the
Fax Number
comb field.
The next item is a
table
. A table contains
cells
and each cell
contains a field. The cells in the table are all fill text fields. The
headers in the table are text and cannot be changed in fill view.
• Click in the field under
Description
and type Elvis Dancing
Dinner Set.
• Press the Tab key to move to the field under
Quantity
and type
1.
• Press the Tab key to move to the field under
Cost
and type
79.99
• Fill in as many fields as you like.