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- Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Borland International, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document describes Visual dBASE custom control files, which are
- installed in the CUSTOM subdirectory.
-
-
- You can use the controls described below by either of the following:
-
- A: While designing a form in the Forms Designer, select
- "Set Up Custom Controls" from the "File" menu, and then specify
- one of the files below this file on the "dBASE Controls" page.
- The custom classes defined in the selected file will appear on
- the "Custom" page of the Controls Palette. You can then add
- these controls to your form visually and modify their properties
- in the Object Inspector and the Procedure Editor.
- or
-
- B: SET PROCEDURE TO <the file you want> ADDITIVE within your program,
- and then use the custom controls as you would any built-in ones.
- For example: DEFINE CANCELBUTTON C OF THIS....
-
-
- AVIPANEL.CC
- -----------
-
- This file contains an AviPanel custom class, which is derived from
- the Visual dBASE built in PAINTBOX Class. This custom class
- is a display panel, along with all the necessary methods,
- for displaying a Video for Windows AVI file. This requires
- Microsoft's Video for Windows to be installed.
-
- *
-
-
- BUTTONS.CC
- ----------
-
- This is file contains class definitions for various custom
- pushbutton controls used frequently in Visual dBASE forms.
-
- These pushbuttons contain bitmaps, which are located in
- <_dbwinhome>\designer\form\Resource.dll.
-
- Current Controls are:
-
- OkButton -- "OK" text and bitmap
-
- CloseButton -- "Close" text and bitmap
-
- CancelButton -- "Cancel" text and bitmap
-
- YesButton -- "Yes" text and bitmap
-
- NoButton -- "No" text and bitmap
-
- NextButton -- Button displaying "Next" text and bitmap, and containing
- OnClick event handler for skipping forward in a table
-
- PrevButton -- Button displaying "Previous" text and bitmap, and
- containing OnClick event handler for skipping
- back in a table
-
- HelpButton -- "Help" text and bitmap
-
- InfoButton -- "Info" text and bitmap
-
- ToolButton -- "Tool" bitmap
-
- ReportButton -- Button displaying "Report" text and bitmap, and
- containing OnClick event handler for bringing up a report
-
- BrowseButton -- Button displaying "Browse" text and bitmap, and
- containing OnClick event handler for browsing table
-
- *
-
-
- PASSWORD.CC
- -----------
-
- This file contains a customized entryfield control class, PasswordEntry,
- which can be used for entering a password.
-
- This control will hide the entered password by outputting "*" characters
- for each character entered, and will save the actual entered password
- in its EnteredPassword custom property. You can then do the checking on
- the password and display the error message you wish.
-
-
- *
-
-
- TABBOX.CC
- ---------
-
- This files contains various Tabbox custom controls that can be
- used in Visual dBASE forms. Each control is contained in
- a separate class.
-
- Current Controls are:
-
- PageTabBox -- Tabbox for keeping track of a forms' pages
-
- SearchTabBox -- Tabbox for alphabetical searches
-
-
-
- VCR.CC
- ------
-
- This file defines a set of VCR buttons for navigating within a table.
- The buttons allow you to move to the first record, previous page,
- previous record, next record, next page, and last record, respectively.
- All of these buttons are defined within the first button control. So
- you can manipulate the VcrButtons class, which is the main class for
- this control, as if all the buttons were one control.
-
- There are some custom properties you can assign to VcrButtons. One of
- them is Etched -- it optionally defines a rectangle around the buttons
- to give them an etched look. You can also define routines to be executed
- before and after each of the OnClick routines for the buttons.
-
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