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 3 — Design Your Own Form
Tutorials - 54
Create and Define the Fill Text Objects
1 Click the Fill Text tool.
2 Draw a fill text object anywhere on the page.
3 With the object still selected, click the Object Definition button
or choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu.
The Fill Text Definition dialog box appears.
•Type Rate in the
Name
text box.
•Select
Currency
in the
Type
drop-down list.
•Select
$0.00
in the
Format
drop-down list.
•Select
Comma Separate Thousands
and
Enclose Negatives in
Parentheses.
4 Click
OK.
Numbers entered the
Rate
fill text field will appear as comma-
delimited dollar amounts: $3,000,000. Negative numbers will
appear within parentheses: ($3,000,000).
5 With the Rate object still selected, choose
Copy
and then
Paste
in
the Edit menu.
6 Choose
Paste
twice more.
7 Use the
Object Definition
command to name the objects:
Earnings, Expenses,
and
Profit.
Because you copied and pasted the objects, the other settings
are exactly the same as for the Rate object.