Main Characteristics of Entry Fields Entry form fields are most commonly used for displaying data to the end user, accepting data from the application end-user, or both. The data length of an entry field is independent of its physical dimensions. If the width of the entry field is too small to display all its associated…
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Main Characteristics of Combination List Boxes A combo box form field behaves like a combination of a list box and an entry field. Combo boxes are commonly used for presenting a fixed number of choices to the application end-user from which one can be selected, or the end-user can enter a value that is…
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Main Characteristics of Check Boxes Check box form fields belong to the generic class of form field called “Toggle Buttons”. They are most commonly used for supporting On/Off or True/False type data values, although they are not restricted to these value types. Multiple check boxes can be in the same state simultaneously, independent of…
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Main Characteristics of Calendars Calendar Attributes – Identification Attribute Name Default Value Description Field Type – The type of this form field or of this user interface object. (Read-only). Field Name variable A string that identifies this form field within the Zim application; Automatically assigned by the Zim IDE when a new form field is…
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Main Characteristics of the Field View The Field View is automatically enabled objects which can contain custom fields are opened or added: Entity Sets; Relationships; Documents. The Field View can be made visible or invisible through the View menu item in the Main Menu.
Main Characteristics of the GUI Designer The Graphical User Interface Designer (GUI Designer) is where windows, displays, forms and menus are designed, edited and configured; The GUI Designer is also used for editing documents and displaying attributes of database objects Several objects may be edited simultaneously; For each currently open object, a tab, displaying the name of the object, is added to the…
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Main Characteristics of the Graphical Objects Tab Page The Graphical Object Tab Page shows the hierarchy of the objects currently open in the GUI Designer. In the Tree View, primary user interface objects, such as forms, displays and menus, appear as top nodes. Forms are the only children of displays All other objects
Main Characteristics of the Attributes Tab Page The Attributes Tab Page lists all the different attributes for the currently selected field(s) in the GUI Designer. The values of all available attributes can from within this tab page.
Main Characteristics of the Tool Box Tab Page The Tool Box Tab Page contains a selection of available GUI objects that can be added to the current form.
Main Characteristics of the Database Tab Page The Database Tab Page displays all databases currently connected to the current session of Zim IDE. Each connected database is represented as an expandable node containing all possible database object categories. Each object category is also represented as an expandable node containing all objects of that category…
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