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 - 58
Align the Objects
Use the
Align
commands in the Format menu or the Arrange toolbar to
line up selected objects left, right, center, and so forth. See “Align and
Format the Objects” on page 37 for more information.
Use the
Snap to Grid
command in the Tools menu to line fields up
precisely along a grid. Choose
Grid Settings...
in the Tools menu to set the
size of the grid. Turn this command off if you do not want fields
snapping to a grid.
Selecting Objects
There are several ways to select multiple objects.
•The
Select Special...
command in the Edit menu lets you select all
objects of a certain type at the same time. This way, you can apply
the same formatting to all selected objects instead of one by one.
• Shift-click to select multiple objects.
• Hold down the mouse button and drag the cursor around all
objects to select.
An object only has to be touching the selection area to be selected.
Remember to fully enclose table and comb objects unless you
want individual elements and cells selected.
Use the Drawing Tools
You can use the Line, Oval, and Rectangle tools in the drawing toolbar
to customize your form.
To draw the rounded border around the outside of the form:
1 Click the Rectangle tool.
2 Draw a border around the outside edge of the form.
3 With the border still selected, click the Object Appearance
button or choose
Object Appearance...
in the Format menu.
The Object Appearance dialog box appears.
• Click the
Background
tab and select
Clear.