Changing the System Defaults

Many characteristics of a data form's appearance are set to defaults. Table 15.1 lists these characteristics and their defaults. You can change these characteristics to suit your application.

Designer: Changes made inside the Designer will override these defaults.

Table 15.1: Default Settings for Data Form Appearance

Form Appearance Default
Field Video Attributes  
Active field LFLDACT
Inactive field LFLDINACT
Skip field LFLDSKIP
Form Window
(based on FM_WNP defaults)
 
Border attribute att specified in fm_def() or in Designer
Border title None
Form-specific logical attribute table NULLP if form is defined in code, library logical attribute table for Designer forms
Margins, left & right 0, 0
Margins, top & bottom 0, 0
CUA Border None
Message Window Borderless window, covering last line of the screen and using LMESSAGE attribute
Error Window Borderless window, covering last line of screen and using LERROR attribute


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