Specifications

Highlighting information in a form
570 InfoMaker
❖ To group controls with a round rectangle and text in the Form painter:
1 Select Insert>RoundRectangle from the menu bar and add a round
rectangle to the Layout view.
2 Size the rectangle and place it over the controls you want to group.
3 Select Send To Back from the rectangle’s pop-up menu to place the
rectangle behind the group of controls.
4 Click the Text button in the Controls drop-down list, add a text control to
the Layout view, and place it on the round rectangle.
5 Select a background color for the text control from the Background Color
drop-down toolbar and select the color, in this case gray to match the
rectangle.
6 Position all controls as needed.
Highlighting information in a form
Every control in a form has a set of properties that determine basically what the
control looks like and where it is located. For example, the values in a column
of data display in a particular font and color, in a particular location, with or
without a border, and so on.
This chapter thus far has described how you modify various properties of
controls in the Layout view. These modifications are static. They do not change
when you run the form.
In contrast, you can also tell InfoMaker to modify some of these properties
when you run the form based on conditions you specify. These modifications
are dynamic. They are based on information available only when you run the
form.
For example, you can tell InfoMaker to show salaries greater than $30,000 in
red. When you run the form, salaries greater than $30,000 display in red. When
you enter new salary data in the form, a salary greater than $30,000 displays in
red after you enter the salary and then move the pointer to or tab to another
column of data.