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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
The Design View Window
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The Design View Window
This section provides an overview of the design view window.
If a form is open in fill view, click the Design button in the standard
toolbar or choose
Design
in the View menu to switch to design view.
As a handy shortcut, click the right mouse button to open a shortcut
menu. Choose
Design
in this menu.
The design view window contains four toolbars and seven menus.
The design view window also contains the calculation toolbar. Choose
Calculation
in the Tools menu to display this toolbar. See Chapter 9,
Using Calculations, for detailed information.
Use design view to edit and create fields on an existing form or to create
an entirely new form.
For detailed information on design view and designing forms, see
Chapter 6, Designing a Form.
Standard toolbar
Drawing toolbar
Font/text toolbar
Arrange toolbar
Status bar: displays current
activity and settings.