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Description
This is the normal starting point for an application or simple dialogue box. Styles can be used to get special effects, such as ‘Banner’ for welcome screens.
Caption – is simply the title bar. You can also use the Titlebar property.
Style – might be ‘Dbx’ for dialogue boxes
Titlebar – resets the form titlebar if used, typically on loading a new file.
Menu – is a Menu Structure which is used to build the menu for the form
To intercept a user’s request to close the form, use an action on the ‘CL=Close Request’. If this returns zero, the form will not close.
Class Property Table
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| Locals | NameList | Local variables | |
| Style | ManyOf | ||
| Centred | Bool | Centre on screen | |
| TopLevel | Bool | Made as a top-level form | |
| Minsize | Numlist | Ð | Minimum size (height,width) in pixels |
| Titlebar | Runtime | Form Titlebar (text vector) | |
| Menu | Runtime | Menu structure | |
| Artwork | Runtime | For menu images (16×16n integer array of bitmap data) | |
| Topform | User | Active MDI or Tabbed child |
Class-specific Events
| PC | Post-Create |
| NM | New Menu |
| WA | Wake-up Call |
| CL | Close Request |
Class-specific Functions
| Check | Tick named menuitem |
| Uncheck | Uncheck named menuitem |
| IsChecked | Report if menu items with this id are checked |
| IsEnabled | Report if menu items with this id are enabled |
| Id | Return the Gui names of all menu items with this id |
| SetMenuCap | Reset menu caption(s) of matching items |
| SetMenuImages | Set image indexes for one or more named menu items |
| Maximize | Maximize form |
| Minimize | Iconise form |
| Restore | Return to normal |
| Cascade | MDI cascade |
| Arrange | MDI icon arrange |
| Htile | MDI Horizontal Tile |
| Vtile | MDI Vertical Tile |
| SetIcon | Set System/Minimised Icon |
| Tips | Turn ‘bubble help’ off/on |
| Wait | Show hourglass (Wait 1 disables all controls) |
| Ready | Cancel wait |