Features and Options for Scrollable Regions

The following options and features are available for scrollable regions. You can:

• nAdd text, boxes and lines within the scrollable region.
  
  
• nAdd text to the scrollable region border.
  
  
• nPlace a scrollable region on a virtual form to implement a scrollable region that scrolls horizontally as well as vertically. This is useful for implementing spreadsheets.
  
  
• nInstall your own scrolling function so you can scroll other objects as the user scrolls through the data rows.
  
  
• nSpecify the help information to appear for the scrollable region. The help system is described in Chapter 44, "The Help System."

If you want to control the processing of scrollable regions, you will need to know more about how the form editor works. See Chapter 29, "How Form and Menu Processing Works," for more information. In addition, Chapter 31, "Writing User Functions," contains specific information about how to write functions to control scrollable region processing.