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- Following is a step by step procedure for building a working form. You should
- proceed here only after finishing the four lesson forms.
-
- The form to be built here is a simple cat show registration form. It should
- provide insights to help you build your own customized forms. All keystrokes
- will be listed on the left side with explanations given on the right. It is
- assumed that you are now in a directory containing the file FM.EXE.
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- type: FM <Enter> Start the Form Master program
- press: F2 3 times Proceed to editor to create form
- After pressing F2 the second time,
- make sure that '70' is listed as an
- input field attribute. The other 3
- attributes should be '00'.
-
- move cursor to row 2 column 35
- type: ACME Cat Show
- move cursor to row 4 column 5
- type: Name Name field label
- move cursor to row 6 column 5
- type: Address Address field label
- move cursor to row 9 column 5
- type: Pet's Name Pet's name field label
- move cursor to row 11 column 5
- type: Competition Competition field label
-
- press: F8 Go to inverse video (attribute 70)
- move cursor to row 4 column 20
- press: space bar 25 times Create name field
- move cursor to row 6 column 20
- press: space bar 25 times Create 1st address field
- move cursor to row 7 column 20
- press: space bar 25 times Create 2nd address field
- move cursor to row 9 column 20
- press: space bar 25 times Create name field
- move cursor to row 11 column 20
- press: space bar 25 times Create competition field
- press: F7 Go back to normal video (attribute 07)
-
- press: Home
- press: F3 twice Start box
- move cursor to row 12 column 78
- press: F4 twice Finish box
-
- move cursor to row 2 column 69
- hold down Alt and type f Alt-F causes form number to be
- inserted during form execution
- move cursor to row 4 column 65
- hold down Alt and type d Alt-D causes date to be inserted
- during form execution
- move cursor to row 2 column 35
- hold down Alt and type b Alt-B starts boldface printing
- move cursor to row 2 column 49
- hold down Alt and type b 2nd Alt-B stops boldface
-
- hold down Alt and press function key F1 View form without special characters
- which cause right side of box to
- appear uneven
- press F1 Return to editing
-
- press: ESC
- enter a 12 after 'Number Of Rows' This form is 12 lines long
- enter a 1001 after 'Form Number' Start numbering forms at 1001
- enter a 54 after 'Line Feeds...' Add 54 lines so page is ejected after
- printing 12 lines (66 lines total)
- press: ESC Return to main menu
-
- press: F6
- type: Catshow Name of form will be 'CATSHOW'
- press: F6 twice Create the form 'CATSHOW'
-
- press: F4 Execute the form
- fill in form
- press: F10 twice Print the form
- press: ESC twice Return to main menu
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- At this point you can make further changes to the form by pressing F3 twice
- (edit current form) instead of F2 (create form). You can also return to DOS
- by pressing ESC twice.
-
- NOTE: If you need to make the form longer than 12 lines, don't forget to
- change the number of rows before proceeding to the editor.
-
- If the box around the form does not print correctly, see the section
- "Configuring Form Master For Your Printer" in the documentation.
-