The Form Ribbon Toolbar
The Form contextual ribbon toolbar provides access to functionality for creating and editing forms and form objects. This toolbar is available when a form window is active. This section briefly describes the buttons in the Form toolbar.
The Form Objects Section
This section contains buttons for adding the most common form objects and a button for inserting additional form objects into the current form:
Click the Input Field button () to insert an input field (text field). See Input Field.
Click the Button button () to insert a button (push button). See Button.
Click the Checkbox button () to insert a checkbox. See Checkbox.
Click the Text Label button () to insert a text label (static text). See Text Label.
Click the Data Display button () to insert a data display. See Data Display.
Click the Graphics button () to insert a data display. See Graphics.
Click the More Objects button (), to open a menu where you can choose additional types of form objects and add them to the current form. See The Form Objects.
The Layout Section
In this section, you can switch between the sketch layout and the grid layout.
Click the Grid button () to switch to the grid mode. See The Grid Mode.
Click the Sketch button () to switch to the sketch mode. See The Sketch Mode.
The Sketch Section
This section contains buttons for tools available in the sketch mode. In the grid mode, these buttons are disabled.
Click the Show Grid Lines button () to add or remove an overlaid grid in the form window.
Click the Arrange button () to open a menu with tools to align the selected form objects.
The Grid Section
This section contains buttons for tools available in the grid mode. In the sketch mode, these buttons are disabled. In addition, most buttons are disabled unless you have selected cells in the grid that make the corresponding action possible. The buttons include:
The Row Settings button (), to choose from a menu of settings for the row size for the selected rows. See Row and Column Settings.
The Column Settings button (), to choose from a menu of settings for the row size for the selected columns. See Row and Column Settings.
The Insert button (), to insert a row or a column next to the selected rows or columns. You can also open a menu to choose if you want to insert a row above or below, or if you want to insert a column to the left or to the right. See Inserting and Removing Rows and Columns.
The Remove button (), to remove the current row or column. See Inserting and Removing Rows and Columns.
The Align button (), to open a menu with tools to align and fill the contents in rows and columns. See Aligning Form Objects
The Merge Cell button (), to merge the selected cells. See Merging and Splitting Cells.
The Split Cell button (), to split the selected cell. See Merging and Splitting Cells.
The Extract Subform button (), to extract the selected cells from the current form and insert them in a new form. See Extracting a Subform.
The Rows & Columns button (), to open a dialog where you can specify the number of rows and columns in the grid. See Changing the Grid Size.
The Editors Errors Section
This section contains the Show Errors button () for showing error symbols () in the Form Editor for form objects that contain errors. The corresponding nodes in the Application Builder tree always show an error, regardless of the state of the Show Errors button.
The Test Section
This section contains the following buttons for testing the application:
The Test Application button (), to launch the application in a separate window so that you can test it. See Testing the Application.
The Apply Changes button (), to compile and apply code changes to the running application (so-called hot code swap). See Applying Changes to a Running Application.
The Preview Form button (), to open a window that contains a preview of the form. See Previewing and Testing the Form.
The Test in Web Browser button (), to test run the application in a web browser. See Testing the Application.