Specifications

Contents
Users Guide xv
Equalizing the size of controls in the Form painter................ 551
Undoing changes in the Form painter ................................... 551
Sliding controls in a form....................................................... 551
Modifying general form properties................................................ 553
Specifying a title for a form.................................................... 553
Setting colors for a form ........................................................ 553
Specifying the display of scrollbars for a form....................... 555
Specifying pointers for a form................................................ 555
Modifying text in a form ......................................................... 555
Defining the tab order in a form............................................. 556
Using borders in a form ......................................................... 557
Prompting for retrieval criteria in a form ................................ 558
Modifying the data source of a form...................................... 560
Adding controls to the form .......................................................... 561
Adding columns to a form...................................................... 561
Adding text to a form ............................................................. 561
Adding computed fields to a form.......................................... 562
Adding pictures to a form ...................................................... 565
Adding command buttons to a form ...................................... 566
Adding picture buttons to a form ........................................... 568
Adding reports to a form........................................................ 568
Adding drawing controls to a form......................................... 569
Highlighting information in a form................................................. 570
Displaying and validating data in a form ...................................... 571
PART 5 APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 21 Working with Applications......................................................... 575
About applications........................................................................ 575
Creating an application ................................................................ 576
Reusing an application................................................................. 582
Running an application................................................................. 583
Identifying your application.................................................... 585
Running a report, form, or pipeline........................................ 586
Managing the toolbar............................................................. 587
Managing the open reports, forms, and pipelines ................. 587
Using the query governor in an application........................... 587
Using a pipeline in an application................................................. 587
Executing pipelines ............................................................... 588
Modifying the pipeline object’s definition............................... 590
Starting an application from the command line............................ 593