Importing Forms into Displays
✓ When painting a diplay , you can import another form into the current view. To do this, select the form you want to import, right-click.A node will appear, select the import option.
✓ When painting a diplay , you can import another form into the current view. To do this, select the form you want to import, right-click.A node will appear, select the import option.
✓ From the Database tab, open an existing menu by double clicking on the menu name or From the main menu (File -> New, or the “New” icon in the menu toolbar), create a new menu object or Open a form/display with an associated menu. ✓ Add a menu item. Click on the menu…
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Introduction to Tab Controls and Tab Pages A tab control defines an area of the form in which several tab pages of the same size can coexist. Tab pages within the same tab control are visually represented as a stacked group of frames, since at any time, only a single tab page can have be…
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text font size size where size is the font size in points. – Valid Settings size = number Windows 12 UNIX 12
toolbars yes | no where yes indicates large toolbars where no indicates normal toolbars Specifies whether toolbars in the application forms will harve large or normal toolbars. – Valid Settings Windows yes UNIX yes
large toolBars yes | no where yes indicates large toolbars where no indicates normal toolbars Specifies whether toolbars in the application forms will harve large or normal toolbars. – Valid Settings Windows no UNIX no
text font name name where name is the name of the font used to display text in the application window (BACKSCREEN). – Valid Settings name = alphanumeric entry up to 64 characters Windows Terminal UNIX n/a
When you are ready to run your application in production mode, you may want to hide the ZIM prompt which is known as the backscreen. You can change the setting dynamically using the $setproperty method. You can also find the current setting using the $getproperty method. backscreen hide yes | no Specifies if the application…
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backscreen heading title where title is the label (heading) to be displayed in the caption of the application window (BACKSCREEN). Valid Settings title = alphanumeric entry up to 64 characters
maximum open windows nn where nn specifies the maximum number of windows that can be open at one time. Valid Settings nn = numeric entry 0 to 127 Windows 50 UNIX 50