¶ The main application toolbar
The main application toolbar serves as a shortcut to the majority of items in the main menu.
Click here for more information about the main application menu.
- Create a new file (Ctrl + N)
- Create a new project (Ctrl + Shift + N)
- Open an existing file (Ctrl + O)
- Open an existing project (Ctrl + Shift + O)
- Save (Ctrl + S)
- Save all (Ctrl + Shift + S)
- Cut (Ctrl + X)
- Copy (Ctrl + C)
- Paste (Ctrl + V)
- Undo (Ctrl + Z)
- Redo (Ctrl + Y)
- Show Project pane
- Show Properties pane
- Show Toolbox pane
- Show Xml Schema pane
- Edit this form's metadata
- Edit this form's list of referenced assemblies
¶ Additional toolbars
Additional toolbars provide functions specifically for the form documents – functions such as formatting and positioning of controls, controlling pages of individual forms or communicating with the Forms server.
¶ Size and Align functions
Commands on this this part of the toolbar provide means to align and size selected controls on the active form.
- Align lefts: Aligns selected controls to the left along the left side of the focused control.
- Align centres vertically: Aligns the vertical centres of selected controls according to the focused control.
- Align rights: Aligns the selected controls to the right along the right side of the focused control.
- Align tops: Aligns the selected controls up along the upper side of the focused control.
- Align centres horizontally: Aligns the selected controls according to the horizontal centre of the focused control.
- Align bottom: Aligns the selected controls down along the lower side of the focused control.
- Snap horizontally
- Snap vertically
- Make same width: Sets the width of all selected controls to the width of the focused control.
- Make same height: Evens the height of the selected controls (with the height of the focused control).
- Make same size: Sets width and height of all selected controls and makes them the same size.
- Bring to front: Brings the selected control to front.
- Send to back: Sends the selected controls back ("under" other controls).
- Shows or hides a snapping grid on the active form.
¶ Page functions
The system supports the creation of forms with multiple pages. This part of the toolbar contains controls allowing the user to edit pages and their settings.
- Add new page: Creates and shows a new form page in the active form editor.
- Delete active page: Deletes the current form page (asks to confirm the deletion first).
- Previous page: Moves to the previous page of the form.
- Next page: Moves to the next page of the form.
- Page size: Allows the user to select the size of the pages.
¶ Forms server communication
The application provides means to communicate with the Forms server via a WCF web services. The majority of the functions are included in the main toolbar.
- Manage templates:
This function allows management of form templates on current Form Server as well as importing an existing form template from the server into the currently active form document, optionally including the localization resources. - Save the template to server:
This action saves the current form as a draft (a form template without version) on the server. - Publish the template:
This action starts the operation of publishing – the current form template is published on the server. Either a new template is created or a version of an existing one is raised.