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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 3 — Design Your Own Form
Tutorials - 45
Create the Comb Objects
You will draw a simple comb object for the zip code and use the
scrapbook to copy phone and fax numbers.
Zip Code Comb Object
1 Click the Comb tool in the drawing toolbar.
2 Draw a comb object.
3 With the object still selected, click the Object Definition button
or choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu.
The Comb Definition dialog box appears.
4 Click the
Properties
tab.
Type Zip Code in the
Name
text box.
Select
Zip Code
in the
Type
drop-down list.
Type 5 in the
Number of Elements
text box.
Type 0.2 in the
Width of Elements
text box.
5 Click
OK.
6 Drag the Zip comb object next to the
Zip
text object.
Phone and Fax Number Comb Objects
1 Choose
Scrapbook
in the Tools menu.
The scrapbook opens to the left of the OmniForm window. It
contains
scraps,
copies of OmniForm objects. Four scrapbooks
were included in your OmniForm program, each with a
different collection of scraps.