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