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Form Master Form | 1991-09-25 | 4.5 KB | 92 lines |
- Lesson 1 - Basics
- Steps for building a form:
- 1. Design your form on paper.
- 2. Enter text onto blank form (Lesson 1)
- You are here
- 3. Add input fields to form (Lesson 2)
- 4. Add borders to your form (Lesson 3)
- 5. Add special printer control functions (Lesson 4)
- You should proceed through these lessons in order. If you make any mistakes
- just reload the form and begin editing again.
- To move the cursor about this form, use the arrow keys. [Try it].
- If you loose your place, press
- Home and page down to where you
- This form has 116 lines and 133 columns. You can move the cursor to column
- were.
- 133 by holding down the control key and pressing the right arrow key.
- [Try it.]
- To get back to column 1, hold down
- the control key and press the left
- You can also move the cursor right and left 8 columns at a time by using the
- arrow key. [Try it.]
- Tab and Backtab (shift-Tab) keys. [Try it.]
- To see the next 24 lines of this form, press PgDn.
- Cursor and Text Entry
- To enter text onto your form, move the cursor to where you want to place
- the text, then type. Note the top line. It will show you the line and
- column where the cursor is on the screen. It also shows the attribute
- of the character where the cursor is (attributes covered in Lesson 2).
- Cursor: 24, 1 | 07
- row, col| attribute
- Try moving the cursor to inside this box and type anything.
- You can also move about your form using the following keys:
- Move down form 23 lines
- Move up form 23 lines
- Place cursor at line 1, column 1
- Place cursor at last line of form, column 133
- The last line of this form is defined on the main menu: 116
- To continue with this lesson, press PgDn.
- Inserting and Deleting Lines
- Move the cursor to the blinking *. Then press ^N (hold down Ctrl and
- press N). This inserts a blank line before the line containing the
- cursor.
- Inserting line
- Inserting line
- Inserting line
- Inserting line
- Now press ^Y. This delete the line containing the cursor.
- Copying Lines
- Move the cursor to the blinking
- . Then press F5 twice. This picks the
- line so you can copy it elsewhere. Now move the cursor down 2 lines and
- press F6 twice. A copy will be inserted before that line.
- Pick this line
- Don't pick this line.
- Don't pick this line. Insert here.
- To continue with this lesson, press PgDn.
- Placing Current Date and Time On Your Form.
- Move the cursor to the '
- ' below and press ^D (hold down Ctrl, press D).
- Move the cursor to the '
- ' below and press ^T.
- Avoid ^C or ^Break as this will abort the program!
- DATE:
- TIME:
- This will make the date and time a permanent part of your form.
- There is a way to have the date and time update automatically whenever
- you execute your form. This will be covered later in Lesson 4.
- 5Practice: Re-type the contents of the first box below in the second box.
- Name:
- Phone Number:
- Employee Number:
- 8Now use the backspace key inside the second box.
- UNote how it erases the preceding character as it backs up.
- KNow press the 'Ins' key and see an 'Ins' appear on the top line.
- EType some more characters and backspaces and notice the change.
- bPress PgDn.
- To next lesson: Press ESC twice.
- [Return to Main Menu]
- FPress F5, F10, select 'LESSON2', Enter.
- [Load LESSON2]
- FPress F3 twice.
- ![Begin Editing]
- To DOS:
- Press ESC twice.
- [Return to Main Menu]
- FPress ESC twice again.
- [Return to DOS]
- If you end up way
- out here, just press
- Home, and then PgDn
- to where you were.
-