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 | Chapter 22. Overview of Window and Dialog Types Provided with SIMPOL |  |
printform1
The printform1 type was also created in the SIMPOL language library
called databaseforms.sml. It provides a set of
data-aware types for creating printable forms (forms primarily meant to be printed
rather than displayed on the screen). This group of types shares a number of types with
the dataform1 type group, and is type tagged as dataform1 as
well as dataform1linkcontainer. For details about working with the
printform1 family of types, visit Chapter 24, Using Data-Aware Print Forms in SIMPOL.
Table 22.3. printform1
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| printform1 | This represents the entire printable form. The form contains a dring of printform1page objects. Each page contains the graphics and controls that are found on that page. The form also has drings of controls, graphics, datasources, bitmaps, fonts, tables, links, and sibling links. |
| printform1arc | A basic wrapper for the wxgraphicarc type, but also includes the necessary elements to be part of printform1. |
| printform1bitmap | A bitmap object that is also data-aware. Can be a static bitmap
or it can have a control source that contains the path name of the
bitmap, which can be a file system resource or located on the
Internet using the HTTP protocol. Must be stored using the URL
format: "file:///c/mystuff/mypic". |
| dataform1bitmapsource | Supplies the container for the bitmaps used in the form. Also contains the path and file name for images loaded from disk. Allows easy reuse of the same bitmap multiple times on one form (or potentially on multiple pages of a form). |
| dataform1controlsource | The information used to connect a database field with a control, including the display format (used both to convert from dates, times, etc. to string for display in the control, as well as to convert from the string value to the target data type for storage in the field). The detail block information is not used when it is part of a printform1control. |
| dataform1datasource | This type is used to hold the information necessary to reopen a data source, as well as a reference to the opened data source itself. |
| printform1ellipse | A basic wrapper for the wxgraphicellipse type, but also includes the necessary elements to be part of dataform1. |
| printform1line | A basic wrapper for the wxgraphicline type, but also includes the necessary elements to be part of dataform1. |
| dataform1link | This object contains the information necessary to create a join between two database tables. It is included in the dataform1controlsource type. |
| printform1page | This contains the controls, graphics, and the reference to the wxform object (if the form is being displayed) that contains all the wxform controls and graphics that make up one page. |
| dataform1record | This is a container for a type(db1record) object.
The features for managing modification are not used in
printform1, since it is not designed to allow user
interaction. |
| printform1rectangle | A basic wrapper for the wxgraphicrectangle type, but also includes the necessary elements to be part of dataform1. |
| dataform1table | This type contains a reference to a database table –
type(db1table), it also contains an array of field
information, a reference to the data source, a reference to the
form, a reference to the current index, a dlistnode
called parentnode which is used to traverse the
tables on the form, and another dlistnode called
datasourcenode that is used to traverse the
tables in the data source. See below for information on iterating
through elements on the form. There is a method called
gettablename() that can be used to
retrieve the table name of the table regardless of the type of
table. It also has events for onnewrecord,
onsaverecord, and
ondeleterecord that can be defined by the
application programmer to take an action at that point. |
| printform1text | This type enhances the underlying wxformtext type by making it data-aware, so that information from a record can be shown, but not edited. |
| printform1triangle | A basic wrapper for the wxgraphictriangle type, but also includes the necessary elements to be part of dataform1. |