Screen Design Page Properties

These are the Screen Design page properties shown in the Properties view when no objects in the Screen Design page are selected.

General

These are the general properties for the screen.

Property	Description
Name	The name of the screen.
Key	The key associated with the screen.
Background color	Click Color picker to choose a background color for the screen. You can also enter the value manually. The possible values are black, blue, brown, gray, green, orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow, any string with the format `#rrggbb`, where rr, gg and bb are the hexadecimal values, in the range 0 to ff(255), for the red, green and blue.
Background image	Click Browse to choose an image to set as the background image for the screen. Note: The image must be located in the project.
Background image repeat	Select from these options: Repeat – the background image will repeat on all screens in the mobile workflow. No repeat – the image does not repeat on each screen Inherit – child screen inherit the background image from the parent screen Repeat-X – the background image repeats horizontally only Repeat-Y – the background image repeats vertically only
OK action	Select the action to perform when the user clicks OK on the screen.

The ruler and grid properties are applied to the Screen Design page, or canvas.

Property	Description
Display	Show ruler Show grid Grid in front
Measurement	Ruler units Grid spacing
Grid line	Color Style
Snap to grid	Automatically align objects to the grid lines on the canvas.
Snap to shapes	Position objects to grid lines that go through the vertical and horizontal edges of other objects.

Keys associated with the controls on the screen are shown.

Property	Description
Key name	The name of the associated key.
Type	The type of the associated key, for example, string.
Data binding	Shows the data source to which the key is bound. Click New to create a new key. Select any key and click Edit to edit the information for an existing key. Select a key and click Remove to remove an existing key.

Property

Description

Key name

The name of the associated key.

Type

The type of the associated key, for example, string.

Data binding

Shows the data source to which the key is bound.

Click New to create a new key.

Select any key and click Edit to edit the information for an existing key.

Select a key and click Remove to remove an existing key.