Using the Form and Report designers
This section shows you the common elements you have to work with in the Form and Report designers. Other designers—for data modules, labels, and custom classes—are variations on the Form and Report designers. Their menus and tools vary, and they might look a little different, but otherwise they all work basically the same. This section refers to the Form and Report designers, but the information applies to the other designers, as well. The section includes the following:
A description of the Form and Report designer windows
What’s available on the Component palette for use in your forms and reports
A discussion of the Field palette and how to populate it with components linked to fields in a table
How to change component properties and create event handlers and other methods by using the Inspector
How to manipulate components (change alignment, spacing, formatting, and so on)
You can open any of the designers from the File menu (File|New) or from the Navigator or Project Manager.
Note
The yellow untitled icon on several pages of the Navigator is for creating a custom class that you can use as a template.