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Chapter 3 - Page Formatting and Dialog Box Customization / Page Formatting and Dialog Box Customization Reference

Functions / Manipulating Format Object Properties

GXGetFormatForm

You can use the GXGetFormatForm function to retrieve the form and mask shapes for a particular format object.

gxShape GXGetFormatForm (gxFormat aFormat, gxShape *mask);

aFormat

A reference to the format object associated with the form and mask shapes.

mask

On return, the mask assigned to a format object.

function result

A shape that represents the form.

DESCRIPTION

To retrieve the form and mask shapes for a particular format object, you use the GXGetFormatForm function. To replace any form previously associated with a particular format object, you use the GXSetFormatForm function. Picture shapes used by the form are flattened to disk with the format object during spooling.

RESULT CODES

gxSegmentLoadFailedErr

A required code segment could not be found, or there was not enough memory to load it.

SEE ALSO

To associate a form with a format object, see the description of the GXSetFormatForm function in the next section.

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