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- Lesson 3 - Lines And Boxes
- Steps for building a form:
- 1. Design your form on paper.
- 2. Enter text onto blank form (Lesson 1)
- 3. Add input fields to form (Lesson 2)
- 4. Add borders to your form (Lesson 3)
- You are here
- 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.
- Press PgDn
- Drawing Lines
- Move the cursor to the '1' below. Press F3 twice. Move the cursor to
- the '2' below. Press F4 twice. Move the cursor to the '3' below. Press
- F3, enter a 2, press F3 again. Move the cursor to the '4' below. Press
- F4 twice.
- F3 marks the starting point of a line using the cursor position. By
- moving the cursor to a new position, either on the same line or column
- and using F4, you draw a line. Note that two line styles are supported.
- Now press F3, enter 3, and press F3 again. Move to the other end of the
- line and press F4 twice. This is how to erase lines.
- Press PgDn
- Boxes
- Move the cursor to the '1' below, press F3, enter 2, and press F3 again.
- Move the it to the '2' and press F4 twice. Now move it to the '3' and
- press F4 twice again.
- Boxes are drawn instead of lines if the cursor is in a different row AND
- column while using F4 than it was when you used F3. Note how the editor
- will attempt to connect all lines and boxes which meet, even those of
- different styles. To erase, press F3, enter 3, and press F3. Then
- move to the opposite corner of the box and press F4 twice. Removal of
- the remaining half box is left as an exercise.
- Press PgDn
- The shifted function keys will type parts of boxes and lines. To view
- these press F1 (see SPECIAL BORDER CHARACTERS), then ESC to return here.
- You can draw a box using only the shift-function keys (but F3 and F4 are
- much faster). Likewise, you can use the control-function keys to draw
- double line boxes and lines. The only item not provided by the function
- keys are crossing lines, '
- ' and '
- '. You must use the F2 menu and F10
- to draw these characters (Lesson 4).
- Using Special Attributes
- Press F8. Move the cursor to the '1' below, press F3, enter 1, and
- press F3 again. Move the cursor to the '2' below and press F4 twice.
- Drawing a box or line always uses the current attribute. Erase always
- clears to the background portion of the current attribute.
- Press PgDn
- Putting a Border Around Your Form
- Use the HOME key to position the cursor to line 1, column 1. Then use F3
- to mark the starting point. Move the cursor to the last line and column
- of your form and use F4 to place a border around your form. Make sure
- you have no text on the first and last lines, or on the first and last
- columns as these characters will be overwritten.
- End of Lesson 3
- ed when you're executing the form.
- Use F2 to define other attributes. Use F7 to switch to white characters
- on a black background, F8 to switch to black on white, and F9 to switch
- to the attribute defined by F2 menu. The top line will show what is the
- current attribute:
- Current Attr: 70
- Move to right side of this form and practice.
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