Form tab on Options dialog

IDE Dialog Tab

This tab of the Options dialog allows choosing features of forms. A form, recall, is a window used to design other windows. There are four check boxes and four editable text boxes showing numeric values.

Display grid: if checked, a grid of dots is displayed on a blank form.
Snap to grid: if checked, controls placed on the form will have their upper-left corner on a grid dot.
Snap to Components: if checked, guide lines appear when a control is moved into alignment with another control, allowing controls to be aligned easily. The movement of the control is halted briefly while the line appears.
Allow overlap: if checked, one control can partially or totally cover another control. If unchecked, overlap is not allowed. If a control is placed so it overlaps another, it moves so it does not overlap when the mouse is released.
Grid X Spacing: the horizontal distance in pixels between dots on the grid.
Grid Y Spacing: the vertical distance in pixels between dots on the grid.
Pretty Print Column: the system writes code which, when run, creates the window corresponding to the designed form. This code is printed to a file with extension .bil. Carriage returns will be placed at this column when necessary so no line of code will be longer than this number of columns.
Minimum Spacing: if overlapping controls is not allowed, the space between controls must be at least this number of pixels.

Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

Created 2000.10.5.