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) |
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| 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 |