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Configuring a Fill–in Instance

You can change some basic characteristics of the Fill–in widget’s appearance and behavior through its property sheet, if the default settings do not meet your needs.

To configure your Fill–in object, begin by selecting it and choosing Tools Property Sheet. The dialog box opens:

Minimal Configuration

Although you can accept many of the default settings, you should make at least three changes:

Internal Data Format

You can use a Fill–in to capture any data type whose value can be entered from the keyboard and represented on the display as ordinary text. The Fill–in will do a limited amount of syntax-checking for you if you appropriately set the values for Define As and Format.

Help

You can supply helpful information to your users in several ways. Here are two of the most common:

Geometry

Reflects the XY origin and size, in character units, of the Fill–in. By default, the Fill–in is colon-aligned. You can change that to left- or right-alignment, though the only noticeable effect that will have is to change the X origin value.

Miscellaneous Properties (Other Settings)

These properties modify the widget’s appearance or behavior in various ways. You can change as many as you like:

CAUTION: Making this Fill–in Movable or Resizable (Advanced Properties) prevents this Fill–in from gaining input focus using the mouse. So if you also set this property, you effectively prevent the widget from ever gaining input focus.
Advanced Properties

A Fill–in widget has only the standard Advanced Properties, but you can change those that do not meet your needs. See the "Advanced Properties" section in "Frequently Used Dialogs," for more information.


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