Specifications

Contents
Users Guide iii
About This Book ......................................................................................................................... xxi
PART 1 THE INFOMAKER ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 1 Working with InfoMaker.................................................................. 3
About InfoMaker............................................................................... 4
What you can do using InfoMaker.................................................... 5
Reports...................................................................................... 5
Queries...................................................................................... 8
Forms ........................................................................................ 9
Data pipelines.......................................................................... 10
Applications............................................................................. 11
Database management ........................................................... 11
The InfoMaker environment ........................................................... 12
About the PowerBar ................................................................ 13
About wizards.......................................................................... 14
Working with libraries ..................................................................... 14
Setting the current library ........................................................ 14
Working with objects ...................................................................... 16
Creating new objects............................................................... 16
Opening existing objects ......................................................... 17
Running or previewing objects ................................................ 18
Working in painters ........................................................................ 18
Opening painters ..................................................................... 19
Painter summary ..................................................................... 19
Using views in painters............................................................ 19
Displaying the view’s title bar .................................................. 20
Moving and resizing panes and views..................................... 21
Floating and docking views ..................................................... 22
Adding and removing views .................................................... 23
Saving a layout........................................................................ 24
Using pop-up menus ............................................................... 24
Defining colors......................................................................... 25