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 - 61
Test the Form in Fill View
1 Click the Fill button or choose
Fill
in the View menu.
2 Click the fill graphic field in the upper right corner of the form.
The Fill Graphic dialog box appears.
•Select
Graphic File
in the
Source
drop-down list.
• Click
Browse
to open the Browse dialog box.
• Locate the Arrowr file in the OmniForm\Sample Forms
folder (omniform\samples in Windows 3.1).
• Click
Open
to return to the Fill Graphic dialog box.
•Select
Stretch to Fit
in the
Options
drop-down list.
3 Click
OK.
The graphic is imported into the field you drew and stretched
to fill the entire box. Click in the field again if you want to
change the graphic’s appearance or import a new graphic.
4 Tab from field to field to test tab order.
5 Enter text in the fill text fields to see your formatting and to
make sure the fields are large enough for text entered.
6 Select a check box under
Job Type.
7 Click another check box to deselect the first.
8 Enter text in the table cells.
• Verify that text is not flush against a border, making it hard to
read.
• Verify that text in the left column is left-aligned and text in the
right column is right-aligned.