Category: Programs and Utilities

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Opening Existing Objects

Opening Objects through the Database Tab Page. ✓   In Zim IDE, the Database Tab Page can be accessed by clicking the Database Tab at the bottom-left of the screen or the Database Tab Page Icon on the View Menu bar. ✓   The Database Tab Page will become visible on the left side of the Zim IDE…
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Designing Form Fields

Note: when painting displays you must add one or more forms to the display first before adding fields.  Forms are the only object that can be directly added to a display. ✓   From the toolbox tab, select the type of object that you wish to add to the current form: ✓   Using the mouse, draw the outline…
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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.

text font size

text font size size where size is the font size in points. – Valid Settings size = number Windows 12 UNIX 12

toolBars

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

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

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

Keywording Objects

A keyword is a user-defined string that is associated with an object. Any number of keywords can be assigned to an object; keywords can be added and deleted at any time. You can then use the keywords to select objects to process. For more information on methods for assigning and deleting keywords, see Processing Options.…
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Locking Object Definitions

You can lock an object so that its definition cannot be changed by any ZOM service (until it is unlocked). When an object is locked, it cannot be erased, deleted, destroyed, recreated, moved, renamed, and so on. Locking an object is similar to write protecting the object. You can set and reset the locked property…
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Diagnosing Application Problems with ZOM

ZOM provides many services and features that have been described above for inspecting and manipulating the objects in your application to resolve problems (finding dependent, depending and unreferenced objects and objects that do not exist, for example). In addition, ZOM provides two special services to help you analyze problems in your application: ZOMDiagnose, ZOMViewLog The…
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