Specifications

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Defining a validation rule in the Form painter........................ 292
How to maintain extended attributes............................................ 294
CHAPTER 9 Filtering, Sorting, and Grouping Rows...................................... 297
Filtering rows................................................................................ 297
Sorting rows ................................................................................. 299
Suppressing repeating values............................................... 301
Grouping rows.............................................................................. 302
Using the Group presentation style....................................... 304
Defining groups in an existing report..................................... 307
CHAPTER 10 Highlighting Information in Reports and Forms....................... 315
Highlighting information................................................................ 315
Modifying properties when designing.................................... 315
Modifying properties at runtime............................................. 316
Modifying properties conditionally at runtime............................... 319
Example 1: creating a gray bar effect.................................... 320
Example 2: rotating controls.................................................. 321
Example 3: highlighting rows of data..................................... 322
Example 4: changing the size and location of controls ......... 324
Supplying property values............................................................ 325
Background.Color.................................................................. 327
Border.................................................................................... 327
Brush.Color ........................................................................... 329
Brush.Hatch........................................................................... 329
Color...................................................................................... 330
Font.Escapement (for rotating controls)................................ 331
Font.Height............................................................................ 332
Font.Italic............................................................................... 333
Font.Strikethrough................................................................. 334
Font.Underline....................................................................... 335
Font.Weight........................................................................... 335
Format................................................................................... 336
Height.................................................................................... 336
Pen.Color .............................................................................. 337
Pen.Style............................................................................... 337
Pen.Width.............................................................................. 339
Pointer................................................................................... 339
Protect................................................................................... 340
Timer_Interval ....................................................................... 340
Visible.................................................................................... 340
Width ..................................................................................... 341
X............................................................................................ 341