Fields

In the tool box, is the Field Tool.

If you Click and drag Field from the Toolbox to the screen, you will see the following:

After selecting a Screen Field that has been dragged onto the screen,

the properties panel will display the Field's properties:

Data

DefaultValue - The initial value of this field prior to user entry.

Hidden - Do not actually display this box on screen

Display Properties

DisplayOnly - if True, do not let the user edit this field

ReverseVideo - if False, display black text on white background, if True then display white text on black background

Visisble - if False, do not let the user see this field

Identifiers

ID - Read only object identifier

Name - User specified name of this object, this name will appear in the Tree View

Position and Size

Location - Upper left corner position of this object

X - Left side position of this object

Y - Top side position of this object

Size - This object spans Width spaces to the right and Height spaces down on the screen

Width - This object spans Width horizontal spaces on the screen

Height - This object spans Height vertical spaces on the screen

Additional Notes:

You can change the tab order of the fields on the screen by dragging and dropping the fields into the correct tab order in the TreeView.

You can resize your Screen Field by clicking and dragging the red border surrounding it or directly modifying the Location and Size properties.

To edit the advanced properties of a Field (such as which field in the capture file a Field should store data to) see Editing Field Properties. You can get to the advanced propertied by clicking on the field in the tree view or simply by double clicking on the field you wish to look at.