Using the Windows Designer

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This section describes how to perform many of the tasks that can be carried out using the Windows Designer. The following topics are covered:

Bitmaps

How to Insert Bitmaps

Borders

How to Change the Border Color of an Object

How to Change the Border Type of an Object

Buttons

How to Insert a Close Button

How to Insert Two or More Buttons

Example: Creating a Button Group

How to Delete Lookup Buttons

Controls

How to Insert Controls

How to Design Controls

How to Insert a Bar Chart, Pie Chart, or Line Chart

How to Insert a Check Box

How to Insert a Dropdown List Box or Combo Box

How to Insert a List View

How to Refer to the Current Item of a Tree View or List View

How to Insert Option Buttons

How to Insert a Slider

How to Insert a Spin Box

How to Insert Tab Pages

Example: Subtype Tab Pages

Columns

How to Make Columns Non-Displayed Dynamically

Dialogs

How to Design Dialogs

Decisions

Decisions for GUI

Extra Queries

How to Insert Extra Queries

Example: Adding a Computed Column

Fields

How to Align Fields into Two or More Columns

How to Change the Order of Fields within Column Boxes

How to Determine the Space between Prompts and Fields

How to Make Fields Non-displayed

How to Make Non-displayed Fields Displayed

Highlighting

How to Highlight the Current Record

Info Boxes

How to Design Info Boxes

Miscellaneous

Example: Child Box Background Color Dependent on Parent Data

How to Call Your Own Windows

How to Call Your Own Lookup Windows

How to Pass a Value to Another Window

How to Change the Tab Order of a Window/Dialog

How to Insert Additional Info Boxes

How to Use a Secondary Info Box

Example: Secondary Window

How to Insert Joined Columns

How to Insert Related Info Boxes

How to Make an Object Resizable Within a Window or Dialog

Orientation

How to Change the Orientation of an Object

How to Drag and Drop Objects within Containers

Spreadsheet

How to Define Spreadsheet Look

How to Change the Properties of Columns in a Spreadsheet

How to Change the Prompts of Spreadsheet Columns

How to Change the Width of All Cells in a Spreadsheet

How to Change the Width of a Column in a Spreadsheet

How to Make a Spreadsheet Resizable

Style Guide

How to Create a Style Guide

How to Use the Controls for Style Sheet Option

Tree Views

How to Insert a Tree View

SQL Statements Used in Tree Views

How to Add Icons to a Tree View

How to Add an Overlay Condition to a Tree View

How to Add a Popup Menu and Double-click Behavior to a Tree View

How to Expand a Tree View Initially

How to Add more than one Child Node to a Tree View Node

How to Refer to the Current Item of a Tree View or List View

How to Synchronize a Tree View or List View with an Info Box

How to Open a Window from a Tree View or List View

How to Make a Recursive Tree View

How to Define a Project Catalog

Example: Creating a Project Catalog