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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
Tutorial 2 — Edit and Design a Form
Tutorials - 36
Create Text and Fill Text Objects
1 Click the Text tool in the drawing toolbar.
2 Click the mouse button once or hold the mouse button and
drag the cursor to create a a text object anywhere on the form.
The object has the word
Label
in it.
3 With the text object still selected, type the word Title:.
You do not have to select the word
Label
to replace it. Just the
text object itself needs to be selected.
4 Click outside the text object to change the cursor back to the
Selection tool.
5 Select the
Title
text object and drag to the end of the Name fill
text object.
6 Click the Fill Text tool in the drawing toolbar.
7 Draw a fill text object next to the word
Title
.
Do not worry about aligning all the objects precisely right now.
You can do this later.
Create a Check Box Object
1 Click the Check Box tool in the drawing toolbar.
2 Draw a Check Box object above the one already on the form.
Hold the Shift key while you draw to constrain the shape to a
square. The tool turns back into the Selection tool.
3 Select the word
Ye s,
and Shift-click to also select the words
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4 Press the Delete key to delete the text or choose Delete in the
Edit menu.
5 Click the Text tool in the drawing toolbar.
6 Click the Lock tool in the drawing toolbar.
You can draw more than one object at a time when the lock is
on. Otherwise, the cursor reverts back to the Selection tool after
you draw one object.