Defining default colors and borders in the Form painter

For Freeform and Grid style forms, you can specify the default colors and borders that InfoMaker uses when generating a basic form. Each style can have its own defaults. You can override the defaults for a style for a particular form.

StepsTo specify default colors and borders for a Freeform or Grid style form:

  1. Select Design>Options from the menu bar and then select the Generation page:

    Shown is the Generation tab page of the Options dialog box. At top is a drop down for Presentation Style with form selected, a drop down for Background Color with Window Background selected, then a Text group box and a Columns group box, each with drop downs for Color set to Window Text and Border set to None.
  2. Select the style whose defaults you want to change from the Presentation Style drop-down list.

  3. Change one or more of the following properties:

    Property

    Meaning

    Background color

    The default color for the background of the form

    Text border and color

    The default border and color used for labels and headings in the form

    Column border and color

    The default border and color used for data values in the draft form

  4. Click OK.

From now on, when you create a new form using the style, InfoMaker uses the defaults you just specified for colors and borders when generating the basic form.

For more information about colors, see “Setting colors for a form”. For more information about borders, see “Using borders in a form”.